Across the world, Belah (Belah 
, בלה , Белах 
) is a common principally girly, but very infrequently male first name. The first name Belah is characteristic of Israel, where it is a common girly name, Indonesia, where it is a very rare male name, and Nigeria, where it is a very rare gender-neutral name. Measured by absolute frequency, the name is most common in Israel, Indonesia, and India. Likewise, Belah is the last name as well as the forename.
Belah is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Bella Swan , the character and the protagonist of the Twilight series; Bella Goth , the fictional character from The Sims video game series, The Sims 4; Bela Talbot , the fictional character in the TV series Supernatural; Bella Hartley , character in H₂O: Just Add Water and Bela ben Beor , the king of Edom, Book of Genesis, among other works.