Conway is a surname turned first name of uncertain origin; it is usually explained through the Irish Ó Connmhaigh, "hound of the plain", though it also matches the Welsh town of Conwy. Country singer Conway Twitty, born Harold Jenkins, borrowed it from a town in Arkansas and gave the name its down-home sound. Conway had barely 20 births a year in 2000, when it stood at number 7568, and has climbed to number 1287 in 2025, its best rank in this period.