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The BALLENTINE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,864 7941 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 945 5718 0.002 19
Change since 1880 +2919 -2223 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 33 35277 0 2
United Kingdom 206 16119 0 4
Top States for BALLENTINE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 346 1917 0.009 86
Tennessee 302 2730 0.005 53
Ohio 292 4938 0.003 26
Florida 267 7441 0.002 17
California 196 13138 0.001 6
Top States for BALLENTINE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 346 1917 0.009 86
Tennessee 302 2730 0.005 53
Alabama 156 3728 0.004 35
Arkansas 83 3913 0.003 31
New Hampshire 38 4454 0.003 31

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of BALLENTINE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BALLENTINE 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 BALLENTINE 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 BALLENTINE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 699 18.09
White (Hispanic) 69 1.79
Mixed Race 40 1.04
Asian/Pacific 14 0.36
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.36
White (Caucasian) 3,028 78.36

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

Meaning of BALLENTINE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BALLENTINE.

Similar names to BALLENTINE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BALLENTINE.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BALLENTINE

The following words are slight variants of BALLENTINE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.