The Balde surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 386 people carried this name — #50,801 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 714,300 people counted.
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In Belgium’s population register
At least 1,494 people named Balde live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
487 people named Balde live in Switzerland.
They live in 13 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 239 people named Balde.
Most of them — 142 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 20 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Poland’s population register
27 people named Balde have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 69 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in 5 of Poland’s 16 voivodeships, most of all in Pomeranian.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In print
Balde in American newspapers,
1881–1937.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 16,894 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Balde,
with a public archive behind them.
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Jakob Balde 1604–1668 · writer -
Amadou Diouldé Baldé 1990– · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 13 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Balde.
- Balch 4,187 · U.S. census
- Bald 868 · U.S. census
- Baldacchino 102 · U.S. census
- Baldacci 258 · U.S. census
- Baldassari 429 · U.S. census
- Baldauf 1,118 · U.S. census
- Baldelli 354 · U.S. census
- Baldi 1,262 · U.S. census
- Baldin 128 · U.S. census
- Baldinger 494 · U.S. census
- Baldini 1,108 · U.S. census
- Baldino 1,532 · U.S. census
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