The BALL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	77,561	366	0.029	288
United States (1880 census)	22,579	229	0.045	452
Change since 1880	+54982	-137	-0.016	-164
Other Countries
Australia	5,496	253	0.034	336
United Kingdom	34,116	136	0.074	743

Top States for BALL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	5,671	184	0.050	500
California	5,466	571	0.016	161
Texas	4,409	569	0.021	211
Florida	4,382	411	0.027	274
Michigan	3,731	224	0.038	375
Top States for BALL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	2,072	75	0.115	1,146
Idaho	886	134	0.068	685
Tennessee	3,231	238	0.057	568
Kentucky	2,279	231	0.056	564
Ohio	5,671	184	0.050	500

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.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one 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!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

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 USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BALL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BALL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BALL in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BALL by picking someone at random in West Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BALL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BALL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BALL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BALL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	907	1.17
Native American/Alaskan	388	0.5
Asian/Pacific	334	0.43
White (Caucasian)	65,562	84.53
Black/African American	9,075	11.7
White (Hispanic)	1,288	1.66

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BALL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to BALL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BALL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.