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    The surname Bald

    A surname, carried by 809 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B430

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bald is more common than 82% of them.

    Origin

    * 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.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 809 people named Bald in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 381,638 Americans. That is down 6.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 868.

    #29,261
    rank among US surnames
    809
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -6.8%
    change since 2000 (was #26,446)

    Who is named Bald

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    87% of people named Bald identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bald

    Bald has the Soundex code B430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B430.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bald come from?
    * 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.
    How common is the surname Bald?
    809 people in the United States had the surname Bald in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 381,638 Americans. It ranked 29,261st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bald?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Bald identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Bald getting more or less common?
    Less common. 868 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 809 in 2010, down 6.8%.