Conway

Where Conway comes from

Anglicization of Welsh Conwy
— Wiktionary's entry for Conway
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1867
    Conway MacMillan born
    American botanist
  2. 1878
    Conway Tearle born
    actor
  3. 1881
    Debut at its peak, #866
    #866 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  4. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Conway Tearle · actor, 1878–1938
  • Conway MacMillan · American botanist, 1867–1929
  • Conway Savage · Australian musician, 1960–2018
  • Conway Berners-Lee · British mathematician and computer scientist, 1921–2019
  • Conway Whittle Sams · American lawyer and historian, 1864–1935

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.