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The surname Baldo

A surname, carried by 794 people in the United States.

2 syllables 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). Baldo is more common than 81.7% of them.

Origin

From the Italian surname ultimately of Germanic origin, from the root of the adjective bold. Compare Sicilian Baudu and Italian Baudo, an Italianized borrowing.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 794 people named Baldo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 388,848 Americans. That is up 9.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 724.

#29,661
rank among US surnames
794
people in 2010
0.3
per 100,000 Americans
+9.7%
change since 2000 (was #30,443)

Who is named Baldo

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

71% of people named Baldo identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 12% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 71%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 13%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 12%
  • Two or more races 2.1%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Baldo

Baldo 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 Baldo come from?
From the Italian surname ultimately of Germanic origin, from the root of the adjective bold. Compare Sicilian Baudu and Italian Baudo, an Italianized borrowing.
How common is the surname Baldo?
794 people in the United States had the surname Baldo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 388,848 Americans. It ranked 29,661st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Baldo?
In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Baldo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Baldo getting more or less common?
More common. 724 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 794 in 2010, up 9.7%.