Callaway
Masculine · “pebbly place”
Callaway is given to both — 639 boys and 582 girls since 1880. See Callaway as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Callaway is an English place name — Caillouet in Normandy, the pebbly place — and the surname came to England with the Normans and then to Virginia.
How old is the name Callaway?
Callaway first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Callaway is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Callaway are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Callaway most popular?
Callaway peaked in 2025, reaching #1808 nationally. Today it ranks #1808, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From caillou to Callaway
The story of Callaway
De Caillouet families came to England after the conquest and the surname became Callaway, Calloway and Kelloway. It reached Virginia early and is common in the American South. Its use as a given name is recent, part of the wide surname-name movement, and it appears in the registers in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
pebbly place
Usually read from the Norman place name Caillouet, from the Old French caillou, 'pebble' — so a stony place. A second route derives it from a Cornish or Welsh element. The Norman reading is the commoner and better documented one.
How the name formed
- caillou
- Caillouet
- Callaway
Related forms: Calloway · Caillouet · Kelloway
Pronouncing Callaway
KAL-uh-way
Three syllables, stress on the first. Callaway and Calloway are said identically.
Nicknames for Callaway
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1998
- Most boys named
- 202588 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1808reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +31.3%88 in 2025, from 67
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Callaway in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Calloway in English — spelling variant
- Caillouet in French — related form
- Kelloway in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Missouri, Tennessee.
Callaways among us
people named Callaway are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 19,410 born in 2025 was named Callaway
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tayvion test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Callaway's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tayvion climbed just as high around 2006, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tayvion's path sketches the road Callaway is walking now.
Callaway is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Callaway is headed
Callaway looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 40% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Callaway beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Callaway in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The pebbly-place meaning is concrete and the Norman village is real.
- Cal and Callie are two short forms, both with real records.
- Three syllables with a front stress, which holds up against a short surname.
- A golf equipment company carries the name strongly.
- Calloway is an equally established spelling.
- It reads unmistakably as a surname.
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Frequently asked
- How many Callaways are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Callaway are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Callaway in 2025?
- Callaway ranks #1808 among US boy names in 2025, with 88 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Callaway?
- About 1 in every 19,410 US boys born in 2025 was named Callaway — 88 in all.
- Will my child share the name Callaway with classmates?
- Callaway will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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