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’.