The Kellaway Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

Search old registers for Kellaway and you will soon meet Calloway too. The family name meaning is “From Caillouet, pebbles”, the same as for Calloway. Records show Kellaway as one of the forms Calloway took over time. Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms. The same family of names includes Callaway.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Kellaway surname had 229 bearers. It sits among the 100,000 most common last names in the country. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Gallaway.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Kellaway, so the heraldry linked to Calloway is a starting point, not an automatic right. Want more than a summary? See the Kellaway family name pack.