Ballard was the #10,695 boys' name in the US in 2025 (6 babies).
Ballard as a boy’s name
US
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
US
2025
#10,695 (6)
2001
#9,243 (6)
1997
#7,281 (7)
1986
#5,926 (6)
1976
#4,418 (7)
1972
#4,986 (5)
1971
#3,963 (7)
1970
#4,724 (5)
1969
#4,404 (5)
1967
#3,559 (6)
1966
#3,537 (6)
1965
#2,780 (9)
1964
#4,039 (5)
1963
#4,048 (5)
1962
#2,364 (12)
The tide so far
Peaked in the US in 1889 at #549.
In the US records since the data begins in 1880.
How common is it?
about 1 in 250,000 baby boys in the published US list for 2025.
In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.