Bëllâ
surname · Latin script
Bëllâ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Italian: a diminutive of Isabella and Arabella, by folk etymology interpreted as bella (“beautiful”).
- USUnited States1 in 5K(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 13Kas Белла
- ECEcuador1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bëllâ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 418 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
66,739 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Белла in RU Russia, Bella in US United States, Vela in EC Ecuador and ბელა in GE Georgia.
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
(measured from records)From Italian: a diminutive of Isabella and Arabella, by folk etymology interpreted as bella (“beautiful”).
Cited for this meaning 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- African Names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Wiktionary
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bëllâ 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 66,739 | 1 in 5K | 67K | Bella | 418 |
| HU Hungary | — | 43,353as Béla | 1 in 225 | 43K | — | 2 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 11,006 | 1 in 1.5K | 11K | Vela | 26 |
| RU Russia | #325 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | register #346 | Белла | 147 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,413 | 1 in 29K | 7.4K | — | 3 |
| GE Georgia | — | 5,368as ბელა | 1 in 745 | 5.4K | ბელა | 39 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,233 | 1 in 3.2K | 3.2K | — | 45 |
| AM Armenia | #441 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 78 | Բելլա | 35 |
66,739 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Popular Newborn Names. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bëllâ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Italian: a diminutive of Isabella and Arabella, by folk etymology interpreted as bella (“beautiful”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and African Names and 7 other sources.
- In which country does Bëllâ have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 67 thousand people named Bëllâ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bella.
- Where is Bëllâ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bëllâ is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bëllâ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 66,739 people named Bëllâ in 2020, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Bëllâ compared with other names?
- In Russia, Bëllâ is the 325th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%ABll%C3%A2The 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 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, “Bëllâ” — the 325th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.