Calloway is an English surname, a variant of Callaway, that goes back to the Norman French place name Caillouet and is usually explained as "place of pebbles" or "pebbly ground". It has a jazz-age swagger thanks to bandleader Cab Calloway, and the nickname Cal gives it an easy everyday form. Calloway has climbed from number 4912 in 2015 to number 1467 in 2025, its best US rank so far, though still outside the top 1000.