Barbara Hathaway: Hello. My name is Barbara Hathaway. Some think Hathaway is a funny sounding name and sometimes pronounce it Hackaway or Hadaway, even Halfway. I believe its origin is English or Scottish, and it actually means someone who lives by a path that runs across a heath, a heath being an open wasteland where heather grows. There are many people with the last name Hathaway. William Shakespeare was married to an Anne Hathaway.