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    The surname Ballow

    A surname, carried by 1,450 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B400

    Ballow: #18,858 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Ballow #18,858, 1,450 people Ballow: #18,858 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Ballow #18,858, 1,450 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ballow is more common than 88.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,450 people named Ballow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 212,928 Americans. That is up 39% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,043.

    #18,858
    rank among US surnames
    1,450
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +39%
    change since 2000 (was #22,910)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,849Berber1,451212,781
    #18,858Zagorski1,450212,928
    #18,867Balistreri1,449213,075

    Who is named Ballow

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

    69% of people named Ballow identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 10% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 18%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 10%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Ballow

    Ballow 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 Ballow?
    1,450 people in the United States had the surname Ballow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 212,928 Americans. It ranked 18,858th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Ballow?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Ballow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Ballow getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,043 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,450 in 2010, up 39%.