Holloway

English surname

"hollow way, sunken path"

Holloway Origin and Meaning

The name Holloway is a boy's name meaning "hollow way, sunken path".

Holloway is a habitational surname, meaning if this is a last name on your family tree, your ancestors once lived in an English town by the name. As a first name, it's relatively undiscovered — Holloway charted for the first time in 2020 and appeared again in 2021. It would work on a child of either sex, although the intuitive Holly nickname might keep the distribution skewed toward the feminine.

In the UK, this name might be associated with the now closed London based prison or with the university, Royal Holloway.