The surname Ballentine
A Scottish Gaelic surname, carried by 4,289 people in the United States.
4 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 4,289 people named Ballentine in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,985 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,864.
Who is named Ballentine
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
76% of people named Ballentine identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 76%
- Black (not Hispanic) 19%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Ballentine
Ballentine 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 Ballentine come from?
- Ballentine is Scottish Gaelic in origin.
- How common is the surname Ballentine?
- 4,289 people in the United States had the surname Ballentine in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,985 Americans. It ranked 7,739th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Ballentine?
- In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Ballentine identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Ballentine getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,864 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,289 in 2010, up 11%.