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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Hathaway

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly central southern England and South Wales) :
  • topographic name for someone who lived by a path across a heath, from Middle English hathe ‘heath’ + weye ‘way’.
  • from an (apparently rare) Old English female personal name, Heaðuwīg, composed of the elements heaðu ‘strife’, ‘contention’ + wīg ‘war’.

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