Belén
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hebrew Beth-lehem, 'house of bread'; by extension, nativity scene and a given name
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: SRCEI, 2021
/beˈlen/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Belén is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 80th most common given name.
- CLChile≈1 in 950(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay≈1 in 1.1K
- ESSpain1 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #634 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 345 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 945 (inferred from the name graph)
34,039 people
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Belen in AR Argentina, ES Spain, CL Chile and 4 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
(measured from records)Hebrew Beth-lehem, 'house of bread'; by extension, nativity scene and a given name
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Belén 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #80 | 34,039 | 1 in 1.5K | 34K | Belen | 217 |
| MX Mexico | #336 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 202 | Belen | 173 |
| PH Philippines | #516 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | listed | Belen | 101 |
| CL Chile | #69 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 945 | 247 | Belen | 112 |
| AR Argentina | #68 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 4.5K | Belen | 151 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Belen | 52 |
| UY Uruguay | #13 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Belen | 63 |
34,039 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the ph-wiktionary-names 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Belén is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Bethlehem (a city in Palestine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Spanish: chosen in commemoration of Jesus's birthplace at Bethlehem in Judea, the Spanish form of which is Belén . The placename means ‘house of bread’ in Hebrew.
as a word
In Hungarian, superessive of bele
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Belén Rodríguez Palominob. 1962ESSpanish politician
- Belén Gopeguib. 1963ESSpanish writer
- Belén Ruedab. 1965ESSpanish actress
- Belén Lópezb. 1970ESSpanish actress
- Belén Atienza Azconab. 1970ESSpanish film producer
- Belén Fabrab. 1977ESSpanish actress
- Belén Blancob. 1977ARArgentinian actress
- Belén Cuestab. 1984ESSpanish actress
- Belén Rodríguezb. 1984ARArgentinian television personality, actress and model
- Belén Funesb. 1984ESSpanish film director
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Belén?
- In Spanish /beˈlen/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Belén mean, and where does it come from?
- Hebrew Beth-lehem, 'house of bread'; by extension, nativity scene and a given name Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- In which country does Belén have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 34 thousand people named Belén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled belen.
- Is Belén a male or female name?
- Belén is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Chile (SRCEI, 2021) and Argentina (datos.gob.ar, 2015).
- How common is the name Belén?
- In Spain, the national register counted 34,039 people named Belén, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Belén compared with other names?
- In Spain, Belén is the 80th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Belén?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bel%C3%A9nThe 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, “Belén” — the 80th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.