Bélou

Name: Bélou: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10
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surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Bélou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common

FRFrance≈1 in 195K(inferred from the name graph)
DZAlgeria≈1 in 210K
NLNetherlands1 in 2.2M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: France (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 114 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 195K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Belou

Locally spelled Belou in FR France, US United States, CA Canada and 2 more.

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

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bélou counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Bélou is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
FR France	≈350 est.	≈1 in 195K	20	Belou	114
DZ Algeria	≈210 est.	≈1 in 210K	—	Belou	2
US United States	≈56 est.	≈1 in 5.9M	listed	Belou	16
NL Netherlands	8	1 in 2.2M	8	—	1
CA Canada	≈5 est.	≈1 in 7.5M	—	Belou	6
BE Belgium	2	1 in 5.9M	2	Belou	4

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bélou is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Arabic surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Algeria
Also written Belou, Bęlõü, Bèlou, Bęlou

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bélou under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Bélou have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 347 people named Bélou in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled belou.
How common is the name Bélou?: In the Netherlands, the national register counted 8 people named Bélou in 2007, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.

What do you want to know about Bélou?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A9lou

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-10 and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Bélou”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)