The surname Ballantine
A Scottish Gaelic surname, carried by 1,211 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex B453
Origin
Scottish Gaelic origin
A surname from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Ballantyne.
One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,211 people named Ballantine in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 254,951 Americans. That is down 7.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,311.
Who is named Ballantine
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Ballantine identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.6%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Ballantine
Ballantine has the Soundex code B453, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B453.
Other Scottish Gaelic surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Ballantine come from?
- Ballantine is Scottish Gaelic in origin.
- How common is the surname Ballantine?
- 1,211 people in the United States had the surname Ballantine in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 254,951 Americans. It ranked 21,553rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Ballantine?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Ballantine identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Ballantine getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,311 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,211 in 2010, down 7.6%.