Belle

loc · English · Latin script

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

Belle is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant of Bella, reflecting the French feminine adjective belle ‘beautiful’.

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

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bales in HU Hungary, ES Spain, GB United Kingdom and 5 more, Белла in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, TR Türkiye, Bela in GE Georgia, IN India, HR Croatia and Bailleul in FR France.

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●

Variant of Bella, reflecting the French feminine adjective belle ‘beautiful’.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Belle 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●

  • English391K54%
  • French4.8K1%
  • Spanish1.1K1%
  • German3481%
  • Hindi3031%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English390,85154%
French4,7631%
Spanish1,1421%
German3481%
Hindi3031%

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◐

Belle is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi name32K records spelled Belle6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Bëllë, Bellè, Bellé, Bêlle

  • Spanish surname24K records spelled Belle20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Panama, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bellé, Bellê, Ḇěllể, Bellë, Bèllė

  • French given name20K records spelled Belle54 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Italy, Philippines

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Bela, Bellé, Bellè, Belaje, Bélle

  • a separate name6.5K records spelled Belle3 spellings in the group

    Also written Bellè, Bellé

  • Indonesian surname1.9K records spelled Belle15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Algeria

    Also written Bélle, Bëlle, Bêllé, Bellé, Bellë

  • Danish surname1.3K records spelled Belle35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Bëlle, Bēllë, Bẽlle, Běllë, Bęllę

  • Italian surname850 records spelled Belle4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Vatican City, Spain

    Also written Bellè, Belle', Bellé

67 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●

Belle 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.

  • In English, An attractive woman.

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

  • In French, soit de (La) Belle, nom de plusieurs localités françaises, soit de belle.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  • In Swedish, Belle är en kortform till Isabelle (→ Isabella) men är också lika med det franska adjektivet belle ’vacker’ (femininform av bel). Huvudpersonen Belle i Disney-filmen Skönheten och odjuret (1991, 2017) kan ha inspirerat till namngivning. Det har varit bland de mer populära flicknamnen det senaste årtiondet.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In English, French; from Annabel, Arabella, Belinda, Isabel, Isabella

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In French, From Annabel Arabella

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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●

0200400600190019502000407 · 1915

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Belle in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880238
1881219
1882264
1883262
1884286
1885255
1886270
1887272
1888317
1889265
1890304
1891240
1892265
1893284
1894249
1895283
1896238
1897212
1898257
1899180
1900291
1901208
1902212
1903200
1904205
1905205
1906191
1907196
1908187
1909201
1910193
1911211
1912279
1913273
1914353
1915407
1916334
1917314
1918285
1919252
1920235
1921219
1922187
1923177
1924162
1925140
1926116
1927120
192893
192996
193082
193162
193268
193355
193450
193547
193642
193746
193844
193942
194032
194145
194245
194351
194425
194540
194642
194746
194847
194956
195039
195150
195245
195348
195443
195530
195630
195741
195839
195933
196035
196133
196230
196328
196433
196524
196618
196716
196818
196926
197022
197116
197218
197317
197421
197515
197612
197715
197814
197921
198011
198113
198215
198318
198413
19859
19866
198712
19886
19899
199013
19918
199219
199335
199441
199535
199655
199762
199868
199956
200074
2001108
2002113
2003107
2004147
2005152
2006146
2007144
2008170
2009136
2010155
2011144
2012163
2013190
2014251
2015251
2016293
2017339
2018312
2019307
2020255
2021241
2022274
2023250
2024255
2025247

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●

1700180019002000Isabelle de Charrière, b. 1740Dido Elizabeth Belle, b. 1761Belle Gunness, b. 1859Gertrude Elion, b. 1918Regina Belle, b. 1963David Belle, b. 1973Camilla Belle, b. 1986Valentina Bellè, b. 1992Belle Knox, b. 1995Belle Delphine, b. 1999

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 84 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Belle
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.2K#3,379
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.2K#7,796
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.9K#8,102
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.7K#8,155
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.1K#1,021
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020828—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—506#3,189
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025333#320
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008282#5,908
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—259#6,758
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991249—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025247—

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 594 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Belle?
We estimate roughly 188 thousand people bear Belle (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Belle have the most bearers?
We estimate about 107 thousand people bear Belle in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled belle.
Where is Belle most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Belle is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 225 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Belle compared with other names?
In Georgia, Belle is the 164th most common given name of 34,237 given names recorded there.
What does the name Belle mean?
Recorded meaning: Variant of Bella, reflecting the French feminine adjective belle ‘beautiful’.
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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, “Belle” — the 164th most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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