Surname statistics for Ballard

There are approximately 10,101 people named Ballard in the UK. That makes it the 1,045th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 160 are named Ballard.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)101011045N/A160
United Kingdom (1881 census)44939970.015150
Change since 1881+5608-48+0.001+10
Other Countries
United States59660503N/A221
Australia1705958N/A104

Politics

People with the surname Ballard are considerably less likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Liberal Democrat.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Ballard
John Ballard
Michael Ballard
Andrew Ballard
Peter Ballard
Richard Ballard
Mark Ballard
Paul Ballard
Robert Ballard
Martin Ballard
Stephen Ballard
Steven Ballard
Philip Ballard
Christopher Ballard
James Ballard
Colin Ballard
Roger Ballard
Neil Ballard
Thomas Ballard
Clive Ballard

Top female forenames

Susan Ballard
Claire Ballard
Patricia Ballard
Sarah Ballard
Ann Ballard
Janet Ballard
Karen Ballard
Louise Ballard
Christine Ballard
Jacqueline Ballard
Kerry Ballard
Julie Ballard
Jennifer Ballard
Sheila Ballard
Sharon Ballard
Jane Ballard
Katie Ballard
Joanne Ballard
Elizabeth Ballard
Linda Ballard

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.