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    The surname Balla

    A surname, carried by 1,603 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B400

    Balla: #17,551 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Balla #17,551, 1,603 people Balla: #17,551 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Balla #17,551, 1,603 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Balla is more common than 89.2% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,603 people named Balla in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 192,605 Americans. That is up 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,508.

    #17,551
    rank among US surnames
    1,603
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.3%
    change since 2000 (was #17,282)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,551Farney1,603192,605
    #17,559Cambridge1,602192,725

    Who is named Balla

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

    77% of people named Balla identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 6.0% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 77%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 11%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
    • Two or more races 1.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Balla

    Balla has the Soundex code B400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Balla?
    1,603 people in the United States had the surname Balla in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 192,605 Americans. It ranked 17,551st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Balla?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Balla identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Balla getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,508 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,603 in 2010, up 6.3%.