# Bald (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 809 |
| US rank (2010) | 29,261 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 381,638 people |
| Change since 2000 | -6.8% (868 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Dutch and German surname, from the personal name Baldo, or related to Baldwin, where the first element is from the root of bold. * As an English and Scottish surname, related to bald.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bald 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) | 87% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 6.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.9% |

## Similar surnames

Blade, Bold, Baldi, Baldo, Belt, Blythe, Bolt, Blood, Boldt, Bilodeau, Blatt, Billiot.

## 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.