The Balta surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 310 people carried this name — #60,706 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 909,100 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
220 people named Balta live in Switzerland.
They live in 13 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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 Belgium’s population register
At least 66 people named Balta 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 Hainaut.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 63 people named Balta.
19 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 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.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Balta.
- Balon 914 · U.S. census
- Balot 152 · U.S. census
- Bals 208 · U.S. census
- Balsamo 2,084 · U.S. census
- Balsan 103 · U.S. census
- Balson 301 · U.S. census
- Baltazar 8,650 · U.S. census
- Baltes 1,196 · U.S. census
- Balthasar 108 · U.S. census
- Balthazar 739 · U.S. census
- Baltimore 2,025 · U.S. census
- Baltus 239 · U.S. census
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