Ballad Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 17
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 10
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 1
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 1
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 5
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 4
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 6
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Ballad Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Ballad family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 5
Farmer 3
Female Servant 3
Stocking Maker 2
Male Servant 1
Shoe Maker 1
Plasterer 1
Hawker 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Ballad

Name Census Frequency
John Ballad 17
Mary Ballad 17
Elizabeth Ballad 15
Joseph Ballad 15
William Ballad 12
Sarah Ballad 11
Thomas Ballad 10
James Ballad 9
Richard Ballad 9
Eliza Ballad 7
Frederick Ballad 7
Ann Ballad 6
Ellen Ballad 5
Walter Ballad 5
Frank Ballad 4
George Ballad 4
Henry Ballad 4
Jane Ballad 4
Albert Ballad 3
Anne Ballad 3
Benjamin Ballad 3
Catherine Ballad 3
Edith Ballad 3
Edward Ballad 3
Susan Ballad 3

Ballad Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Bulled 67% 522
2 Bullied 57% 446
3 Ballad 100% 257
4 Bulleid 57% 124

Did you know?

The surname Ballad is the 3rd most popular variant of Bulled.

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