Ballard
Ballard is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 552nd, in 1889.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192240 births
- Best rank
- #552in 1889
- Since 1880
- 1,153people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,153 boys have been named Ballard in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 40 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 40 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ballard | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 60 | |
| 1890s | 24 | |
| 1900s | 27 | |
| 1910s | 193 | |
| 1920s | 257 | |
| 1930s | 194 | |
| 1940s | 157 | |
| 1950s | 129 | |
| 1960s | 69 | |
| 1970s | 24 | |
| 1980s | 6 | |
| 1990s | 7 | |
| 2000s | 6 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Ballard was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Ballard
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dolphuspeak 1930
- Gilespeak 1918
- Buddpeak 1923
- Thorntonpeak 1921
- Lafayettepeak 1921
- Sumnerpeak 1920
- Bedfordpeak 1924
- Finispeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.