# Balle (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/balle/  
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 | Dutch |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 562 |
| US rank (2010) | 39,164 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 549,369 people |
| Change since 2000 | -7.6% (608 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Various origins: * Borrowed from Dutch Balle, a reduced form of any of various Germanic names beginning with the element *balþaz (“bold”). * Borrowed from Danish Balle, a habitational surname from balle (“slope; hill”). * A respelling of Catalan Batlle, an occupational surname from batlle (“mayor”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Balle 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) | 38% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 56% |
| Two or more races | 0.0% |

## Similar surnames

Bailey, Ball, Bail, Beall, Ballew, Beale, Ballou, Belle, Bale, Bellew, Billie, Bal.

## 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.