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The BALLEW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,616 4311 0.003 28
United States (1880 census) 992 5493 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +6624 +1182 +0.001 +8
Other Countries
Australia 2 254802 0 0
United Kingdom 1 36530 0 0
Top States for BALLEW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 957 2449 0.005 46
Georgia 883 1209 0.011 108
California 522 5453 0.002 15
South Carolina 491 1368 0.012 122
Tennessee 491 1752 0.009 86
Top States for BALLEW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 491 1368 0.012 122
Georgia 883 1209 0.011 108
Tennessee 491 1752 0.009 86
Oklahoma 290 1655 0.008 84
Missouri 440 1650 0.008 79

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

Classification and Origin of BALLEW

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: Japan

Language of origin: Japanese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BALLEW 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.

Ethnic distribution of BALLEW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 348 4.57
White (Hispanic) 118 1.55
Mixed Race 117 1.54
Native American/Alaskan 117 1.54
Asian/Pacific 30 0.39
White (Caucasian) 6,886 90.41

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

Meaning of BALLEW in historical publications

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

Similar names to BALLEW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BALLEW.

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 BALLEW

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