Ballard

Where Ballard comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ballard.

Ballard through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys, with 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Ballard MacDonald born
    American lyricist
  3. 1889
    Peak, #549
    12 babies named Ballard, its best rank.
  4. 1890
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1904
    Ballard Berkeley born
    British actor of stage and screen
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Ballard Berkeley · British actor of stage and screen, 1904–1988
  • Ballard MacDonald · American lyricist, 1882–1935
  • Ballard F. Smith · Baseball executive, born 1946
  • Ballard Smith · Continental Army officer and politician, 1800–1900
  • Ballard C. Campbell · American historian, born 1940

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.