Conway Family History
Conway Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of various Gaelic names, such as Mac
Conmidhe (see McNamee); Ó Connmhaigh or Mac
Connmhaigh (‘descendant (or son) of Connmhach’, a personal
name derived from connmach ‘head-smashing’), also Anglicized as
Conoo; and Ó Conbhuide (‘descendant of Cú
Bhuidhe’, a personal name composed of the elements cú
‘hound’ + buidhe ‘yellow’).Welsh: habitational name
from Conwy formerly Conway, a fortified town on the coast of North Wales, itself named
for the river on which it stands.Scottish:
habitational name from Conway in the parish of Beauly, recorded
c.1215 as Coneway and in 1291 as Convathe. It
probably gets its name from Gaelic coinmheadh ‘billet’, ‘free
quarters’, being so named as the district in which the local lord’s
household troops were billeted.
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Name Distribution of Conway Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Conway families
 622 - 1,241  208 - 621 |
 1 - 207  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Conway families
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643 - 1,284 215 - 642 |
1 - 214 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Conway families
|
201 - 399 68 - 200 |
1 - 67 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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