# Balas (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/balas/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,812 |
| US rank (2010) | 16,018 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 170,389 people |
| Change since 2000 | +26% (1,441 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Balas in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 85% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 7.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 4.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Balas in Romania.

## People named Balas

- Egon Balas, American mathematician (1922–2019)

## Similar surnames

Bales, Beals, Bayless, Blas, Bailes, Bayles, Bayliss, Baylis, Balls, Ballas, Bellas, Balk.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.