Ballard

Ballard is the 574th most common surname in the United States, shared by 57,424 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,205.

By the numbers

People: 57,424
Rank: 574th
How common: 1 in 5,205
Per 100,000: 19.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.3%
Black, not Hispanic 18.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Ballard

J. G. Ballard (1930–2009)British novelist
Robert Ballard (born 1942)United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist
Florence Ballard (1943–1976)American singer
Daniel Ballard (born 1999)Northern Irish association football player
Hank Ballard (1927–2003)American singer
Alimi Ballard (born 1977)American actor
Glen Ballard (born 1953)American songwriter, lyricist, and record producer
Kaye Ballard (1925–2019)American actress, comedian, and singer

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

Surnames like Ballard

Also a first name

Ballard has been given to 1,159 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1922. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.