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    The surname Balls

    A surname, carried by 1,559 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B420

    Balls: #17,927 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Balls #17,927, 1,559 people Balls: #17,927 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Balls #17,927, 1,559 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Balls is more common than 89% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,559 people named Balls in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 198,041 Americans. That is up 69% since 2000, when the Census counted 925.

    #17,927
    rank among US surnames
    1,559
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +68.5%
    change since 2000 (was #25,147)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,921Pop1,560197,914
    #17,927Mayton1,559198,041

    Who is named Balls

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

    80% of people named Balls identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 80%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.7%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Balls

    Balls has the Soundex code B420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Balls?
    1,559 people in the United States had the surname Balls in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 198,041 Americans. It ranked 17,927th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Balls?
    In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Balls identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Balls getting more or less common?
    More common. 925 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,559 in 2010, up 69%.