Ballard
#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · boys
- 1889 · 12 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,159since 1880
Ballard over time
Rank among boys' names. Ballard has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | — | |
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| 2014 | — | |
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| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | — | |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #2,780 | 9 |
| 1964 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #2,364 | 12 |
| 1961 | #4,065 | 5 |
| 1960 | #2,042 | 16 |
| 1959 | #2,530 | 11 |
| 1958 | #2,818 | 9 |
| 1957 | #2,093 | 15 |
| 1956 | #2,091 | 15 |
| 1955 | #2,964 | 8 |
| 1954 | #2,743 | 9 |
| 1953 | #2,531 | 10 |
| 1952 | #1,856 | 17 |
| 1951 | #1,643 | 21 |
| 1950 | #2,019 | 14 |
| 1949 | #1,754 | 18 |
| 1948 | #2,027 | 14 |
| 1947 | #1,850 | 17 |
| 1946 | #1,813 | 16 |
| 1945 | #1,697 | 16 |
| 1944 | #1,738 | 16 |
| 1943 | #2,405 | 10 |
| 1942 | #1,730 | 17 |
| 1941 | #2,207 | 11 |
| 1940 | #1,433 | 22 |
| 1939 | #2,288 | 10 |
| 1938 | #1,689 | 17 |
| 1937 | #1,344 | 25 |
| 1936 | #1,417 | 22 |
| 1935 | #1,584 | 19 |
| 1934 | #2,266 | 11 |
| 1933 | #1,405 | 23 |
| 1932 | #1,356 | 26 |
| 1931 | #1,843 | 16 |
| 1930 | #1,463 | 25 |
| 1929 | #1,480 | 24 |
| 1928 | #1,272 | 32 |
| 1927 | #1,561 | 24 |
| 1926 | #1,661 | 21 |
| 1925 | #2,313 | 13 |
| 1924 | #1,964 | 17 |
| 1923 | #1,589 | 23 |
| 1922 | #1,120 | 40 |
| 1921 | #1,178 | 37 |
| 1920 | #1,457 | 26 |
| 1919 | #1,531 | 23 |
| 1918 | #1,211 | 33 |
| 1917 | #1,479 | 23 |
| 1916 | #1,138 | 33 |
| 1915 | #1,217 | 29 |
| 1914 | #1,492 | 17 |
| 1913 | #1,173 | 19 |
| 1912 | #2,269 | 6 |
| 1911 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,045 | 10 |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,345 | 5 |
| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,130 | 5 |
| 1902 | #1,137 | 5 |
| 1901 | #858 | 7 |
| 1900 | #1,310 | 5 |
| 1899 | #928 | 6 |
| 1898 | — | |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | #1,101 | 5 |
| 1895 | #1,079 | 5 |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | #792 | 8 |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | #549 | 12 |
| 1888 | #1,031 | 5 |
| 1887 | #921 | 5 |
| 1886 | #845 | 6 |
| 1885 | #936 | 5 |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | #720 | 7 |
| 1882 | #754 | 7 |
| 1881 | #706 | 7 |
| 1880 | #809 | 6 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Ballard was already there! It came in at #809, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1884–1885, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ballard is popular in 1927
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#424 · 1 in 4,435
Best ever in a state: #219 in Kentucky, 1917.
Show every state
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| Kentucky | #424 | 6 | 1 in 4,435 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ballard
- Biggest jump: 482 spots in 1889 (#1,031 → #549)
- Biggest drop: 382 spots in 1900 (#928 → #1,310)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1889 at #549 (12 births)
- Births halved by 1890, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1880–1883
- Highest: 1 in 9,215 boys born in 1889 were named Ballard (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 22.2% of all boys named Ballard (257) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 60 | #549 (1889) | #808 |
| 1890s | 24 | #792 (1892) | #975 |
| 1900s | 27 | #858 (1901) | #1,156 |
| 1910s | 193 | #1,045 (1910) | #1,395 |
| 1920s | 257 | #1,120 (1922) | #1,560 |
| 1930s | 194 | #1,344 (1937) | #1,666 |
| 1940s | 157 | #1,433 (1940) | #1,865 |
| 1950s | 129 | #1,643 (1951) | #2,329 |
| 1960s | 69 | #2,042 (1960) | #3,426 |
| 1970s | 24 | #3,963 (1971) | #4,523 |
| 1980s | 6 | #5,926 (1986) | #5,926 |
| 1990s | 7 | #7,281 (1997) | #7,281 |
| 2000s | 6 | #9,243 (2001) | #9,243 |
| 2010s | 0 | — | — |
| 2020s | 6 | #10,695 (2025) | #10,695 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ballard in 1927
Top boys' names in 1927
More about 1927
boys
1,126,915 boys got a published name in 1927; 1 in 46,955 of them was named Ballard, which outranked 67.5% of the 4,802 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,516Vince25
- #1,516Winifred25
- #1,516Wright25
- #1,561Ballard24
- #1,561Adrain24
- #1,561Benjaman24
- #1,561Bertha24
- #1,603Arlon23
- #1,603Ashton23
- #1,603Axel23
Tied with 41 names at #1,561; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.