Word.ws English Dictionary

Ballard

Ballard proper noun: an English surname. Also the ellipsis of Ballard County.

Proper noun

Ballard (countable and uncountable, plural Ballards)

  1. An English surname.
    • “The key is communicating expectations,” Ballard said.2019 September 9, Kathryn Vasel, “Burnout is a big deal. Here’s how managers can spot it”, in CNN Business
  2. A census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California.
  3. An unincorporated community in Anderson County, Kentucky.
  4. An unincorporated community in Bates County, Missouri.
  5. A neighbourhood in north-west Seattle, Washington.
  6. A minor city in Uintah County, Utah.
  7. A rural locality in Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia.
  8. A townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
  9. A number of townlands in Southern Ireland.

Also used as

Ballard is also the ellipsis of Ballard County.

Forms of Ballard

pluralBallards

Words formed from Ballard

Questions about Ballard

What does Ballard mean?
Ballard means an English surname.
What part of speech is Ballard?
Ballard is a proper noun.

Words near Ballard in the dictionary

  1. ballarags
  2. Ballarat
  3. Ballarat Central
  4. Ballarat East
  5. Ballarat North
  6. Ballard
  7. Ballard County
  8. Ballardesque
  9. Ballardian
  10. Ballards
  11. Ballardvale

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Ballard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Ballard.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ballard. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.