Halliday is used as a family name or surname in Gaelic. It is 8 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Halliday
No. of characters: 8
Origin: Gaelic
Meaning: "Holy-day." It is said this name had its origin in the Slogan, or war-cry of a Gaelic clan residing in Annandale, who made frequent raids on the English border. On these occassions they employed the war-sry of "A holyday," every day, in their estimation, being holy, that was spent in ravaging the enemy's country

How popular is Halliday?

Halliday is common in South Africa.

Halliday is ranked 14836 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Halliday bearers increased by 3.395201 per cent in 2010 US census to 4568 since 2000, the surname slipped by 301 spots and ranked at 7298. The last name was found in around 16 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 89.89 92.39
Black 4.73 4.05
Hispanic or Latino 2.47 1.83
Others 1.82 1.04
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.61 0.43
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.48 0.25
Halliday is quite popular family name mostly used in England while Falkland Islands is ahead in terms of density. Around 35500 people have been found who wears Halliday as their family name. Halliday is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
3,712 Iceland10
9,206 Trinidad and Tobago8
705 Gibraltar7
41 Falkland Islands6
8,040 Guyana6
567,967 Indonesia6
8,438 China5
101,066 Zimbabwe5
381,097 Ukraine4
2,967 Vietnam3
14,078 Japan3
2,720 South Korea3
35,184 Poland3
41,879 Turkey2
18,718 Thailand2
3,014 Taiwan2
26,123 Malaysia2
54,641 Sweden2
10,267 Sri Lanka2
40,256 Mexico2
1,118 Isle of Man2
95,312 Argentina2
37,779 Serbia1
28,746 Algeria1
7,191 Afghanistan1
10,190 Bahrain1
174,544 Czech Republic1
31,584 Peru1
123,175 Tanzania1
6,820 Angola1
28,365 Kenya1
17,575 Kuwait1
16,283 Lithuania1
42,479 Greece1
47,891 Norway1
4,999 Papua New Guinea1
25,746 Finland1
696 Saint Kitts and Nevis1
1,421 Saint Lucia1
8,859 Iraq1
3,993 El Salvador1
8,500 Dominican Republic1
2,613 The Bahamas1
19,810 Croatia1
2,374 Bermuda1
199,150 Kazakhstan1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
95,259 Italy45
246 Guernsey36
8,720 Qatar29
21,901 Chile27
36,547 Switzerland27
1,064 Barbados23
52,530 Belgium22
23,914 Denmark20
1,163 Jersey17
1,286 Malta16
228 Turks and Caicos Islands15
78,557 Netherlands13
559,154 India12
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
32,115 Spain75
3,257 Hong Kong71
13,832 United Arab Emirates69
216 United States Virgin Islands60
5,773 Singapore53
Countries with hundreds of Halliday:
895 New Zealand783
546 Northern Ireland596
23,918 Germany437
973 Wales406
39,161 Brazil286
39,199 Philippines258
38,971 France257
15,678 Saudi Arabia192
2,416 Ireland186
7,115 Colombia175
528 Belize131
Countries with thousands of Halliday:
905 England8,303
3,960 Nigeria6,113
6,460 United States5,989
820 Australia3,736
1,593 Canada3,237
380 Scotland2,231
4,540 South Africa1,443
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Immigrant Francis Halliday from Ireland aboard the Hannah Kerr from Belfast during the Irish famine. He is registered to be 20 years old when he arrived in USA on May 5, 1849. 15 years old George-H. Halliday, Jas. Halliday, aged 30, Isabella Halliday (17) Maid, Thomas Halliday, aged 25, 24 years old Andrew Halliday, 21 years old Robert Halliday, 20 years old Jessy Halliday, John Halliday (20) Workman, Weaver Francis Halliday, and 19 other Halliday majority of whom were servant and others worked as workman and farmer migrated to US from London, Liverpool and Belfast.

Halliday Namesakes

  • Ebby Halliday, Businesswoman
  • Eugene Halliday, Writer
  • Alasdair Halliday, Musical Artist
  • Peter Halliday, Actor
  • Andy Halliday, Soccer player
  • Matt Halliday, Racing driver
  • Matt Halliday, Racing driver
  • Connor Halliday, Football quarterback
  • Brett Halliday, Writer
  • Peter Halliday, Actor
  • Kirsty Halliday, from 2014 crime, thriller film Skeletons, who characterized Abbey.

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