boys:
1.2k births since 1880
#3450 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1880
#6587 (15th percentile)
The name Ballard is the #6,587 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,153 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 14.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,450 (24.7% percentile) for all time with 1,153 births since 1880.
Ballard has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Ballard is available in 83 out of the 122 years between 1880 and 2001. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Ballard reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 6.4% percentile (ranked #511) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 101 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ballard".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ballard. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.6% confident that Ballard is pronounced as BA-lerd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BA-luhrd, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like B AE1 L ER0 D) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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