Ball

76,008 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ball in the 2020 census, making it the 420th most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,932.

By the numbers

People: 76,008
Rank: 420th
How common: 1 in 3,932
Per 100,000: 25.4

Where the name comes from

A toponymic surname for a person that lives near a knoll or rounded hill (i.e.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ball described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.4%
Black, not Hispanic 12.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Ball

Lucille Ball (1911–1989)American actress
Hugo Ball (1886–1927)German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists
Alice Augusta Ball (1892–1916)African American chemist
Alan Ball Jr. (1945–2007)English footballer and manager
Ashleigh Ball (born 1983)Canadian voice actress
Lonzo Ball (born 1997)American basketball player
Alan Ball (born 1957)American screenwriter
LaMelo Ball (born 2001)American basketball player

People named Ball with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ball

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.