Bella

loc · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bella is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the Italian term of beautiful, but found in writings in Zagreb Beile today in Croatia.

rarermore common
  • GEGeorgia1 in 745◐
  • CACanada1 in 2K
  • AIAnguilla1 in 2.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈188K ●

across 15 countries

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
367 ●

575K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 225 ◐

Hungary

Spellings & scripts●

BelleLatin · English●391K records
БеллаCyrillic · Russian●61K records
ᲑელაGeorgian · Georgian●11K records
เบลThai · Thai●351 records
ԲելլաArmenian · Armenian●92 records
ΜπελλαGreek · Greek●5 records
벨라Hangul · Korean●0 records

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bales in HU Hungary, ES Spain, GB United Kingdom and 5 more, Belle in US United States, CA Canada, AI Anguilla and 1 more, Белла in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, TR Türkiye and Bela in GE Georgia, IN India, HR Croatia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From the Italian term of beautiful, but found in writings in Zagreb Beile today in Croatia.

Sources 1

  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Bella is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—107,147362K rec.1 in 3.1K278KBelle367
CA Canada—104,2097.9K rec.—37Belle112
RU Russia#307103,79746K rec.—#346Белла136
HU Hungary—43,353△37 rec.1 in 22543KBales3
EC Ecuador—11,006△218 rec.1 in 1.5K11KVela30
UA Ukraine#41510,13814K rec.——Белла30
BR Brazil—7,413△20 rec.1 in 29K7.4K—3
GB United Kingdom—5,46617K rec.—619Bales159
GE Georgia#1645,3685.7K rec.1 in 7455.4KBela40
AU Australia—3,99821K rec.—198Bales165
SE Sweden—3,233△921 rec.1 in 3.2K3.2KBales44
FR France—3,20519K rec.1 in 21K3.2KBailleul238

Roughly 107K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 3.1K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English58K12%
  • Spanish31K6%
  • Hindi1.3K1%
  • Portuguese4651%
  • Arabic1461%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English58,12612%
Spanish30,7346%
Hindi1,2941%
Portuguese4651%
Arabic1461%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Bella is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname229K records spelled Bella89 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Paraguay, Colombia, Argentina, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Béllà, Bélla, Bellà, Bellä, Bëllä

  • Indonesian given name39K records spelled Bella27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Morocco

    Also written 'Bella, Bella', Bélla, Béllã, Béllâ

  • Italian surname8.8K records spelled Bella38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written Bellà, Bêllâ, Béllà, Bélla, Bĕllã

  • a separate name5.2K records spelled Bella3 spellings in the group

    Also written Bélla, Bėlla

  • Finnish name4.7K records spelled Bella24 spellings in the group

    Also written Bélla, Béllâ, Béllã, Bêllã, Bęllã

  • Hindi name4.2K records spelled Bella22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Bêlla, Bèllâ, Béllâ, Bèlla, Bélla

64 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Bella is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • West African (Burkina Faso/Mali) name; Zerma: 'slave'/'freed slave'; Italian female name: 'beautiful'

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • In French, From Latin bella 'beautiful' or a short form of names like Isabella.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In Spanish, feminine singular of bello

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, Bella är en kortform till namn som → Isabella och → Gabriella, men kan också vara ett lån av femininformen av det italienska adjektivet bella ’vacker’. Det har blivit populärt som officiellt förnamn först under 2000-talet.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Italian, do lat. med. bella; cognome por beleza ímpar ou nome feminino

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K1900195020005.1K · 2010

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Bella in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188013
188124
188216
188317
188431
188525
188622
188726
188831
188937
189042
189137
189253
189346
189435
189539
189643
189744
189839
189953
190073
190136
190253
190344
190443
190552
190654
190760
190865
190975
191073
191182
1912113
1913125
1914152
1915160
1916207
1917215
1918238
1919211
1920188
1921192
1922178
1923172
1924134
1925133
1926106
192790
192873
192983
193064
193150
193247
193337
193445
193528
193629
193719
193819
193925
194019
194127
194222
194316
194416
194513
194623
194743
194826
194930
195021
195129
195236
195343
195428
195541
195625
195724
195834
195924
196030
196122
196224
196322
196421
196534
196616
196716
196824
196918
197032
197121
197219
197328
197419
197529
197618
197726
197819
197925
198017
198119
198222
198322
198419
198523
198617
198719
198820
198917
199028
199147
199239
199349
199476
1995107
199672
199795
1998156
1999185
2000307
2001413
2002683
2003974
20041,240
20051,664
20061,959
20072,260
20082,788
20094,540
20105,136
20114,280
20124,362
20134,190
20144,107
20153,814
20163,685
20174,667
20184,578
20194,399
20203,649
20213,369
20222,915
20232,566
20242,479
20252,129

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Bella Rosenfeld, b. 1889Bella Abzug, b. 1920Bella Darvi, b. 1928Norma Crane, b. 1928Bella Davidovich, b. 1928Bella Freud, b. 1961Erika Bella, b. 1972Nikki Bella, b. 1983Brie Bella, b. 1983Rachael Bella, b. 1984

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 134 sources across 68 countries.

Official registers attesting Bella
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202067K#755
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202411K#192
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20227.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—7.4K#2,092
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20205.1K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3.2K#789
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103K#10,668
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.3K#12,598
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.2K#12,883
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20252.1K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.9K#1,833
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.8K—

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,234 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bella?
We estimate roughly 188 thousand people bear Bella (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Bella have the most bearers?
We estimate about 107 thousand people bear Bella in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled belle.
Where is Bella most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bella is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 225 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Bella compared with other names?
In Georgia, Bella is the 164th most common given name of 34,237 given names recorded there.
What does the name Bella mean?
Recorded meaning: From the Italian term of beautiful, but found in writings in Zagreb Beile today in Croatia.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bella” — the 164th most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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