Ballou is used as a family name or surname in Ivory Coast. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Ballou
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Ivory Coast
Meaning: Focused in the Haute-Vienne (Alternative: Ballut), could be a personal name of Germanic origin, Balowulf (source: M.-T. Morlet), formed on the roots "balo" (= evil) and "wulf "(= wolf). It may also be, as Ballot (region), a diminutive Bal (another German name).

How popular is Ballou?

Ballou is common in Ivory Coast.

Ballou is ranked 45165 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Ballou bearers increased by 5.282265 per cent in 2010 US census to 5800 since 2000, the surname slipped by 183 spots and ranked at 5936. The last name was found in around 20 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 82.79 84.53
Black 10.76 10.51
Hispanic or Latino 2.67 1.45
Others 1.62 1.71
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.48 1.25
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.67 0.54
Ballou is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Ivory Coast is ahead in terms of density. Around 10656 people have been found who wears Ballou as their family name. Ballou is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
26,325 Mauritania5
720,003 Russia4
18,114 Algeria3
18,625 Japan2
34,681 Norway2
65,594 Belgium2
10,858 Tunisia2
10,190 Bahrain1
26,040 Trinidad and Tobago1
1,704,541 India1
7,340 Democratic Republic of The Congo1
279,271 Australia1
9,541 Turkmenistan1
36,678 Singapore1
58,885 Poland1
2,715 Gabon1
38,830 Morocco1
40,340 Malaysia1
172,258 Germany1
153,416 Italy1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
9,109 Burkina Faso25
78,557 Netherlands13
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
19,607 Greece98
47,259 Canada66
60,099 England59
Countries with hundreds of Ballou:
35,533 France282
Countries with thousands of Ballou:
5,513 United States7,158
879 Ivory Coast2,922
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Natalie Sollars
The origin of the name is Germanic etymology of the name comes from the Germanic personal name balwulf which means bad wolf that name is the name of an ancestor origin of the name is Germanic etymology of the name comes from Germanic personal name meaning balwulf bad wolf that name is the name of an ancestor.

Ballou Namesakes

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  • Sullivan Ballou, Lawyer
  • Fremont O. Ballou, Author
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