Bello

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: beautiful, fair

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

/beʝo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 673(inferred from the name graph)
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.2K
  • COColombia≈1 in 2K

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 Bello 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.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈830,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
341 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 257 (inferred from the name graph)

Nigeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BelloLatin(measured from records)
เบลโลThai(measured from records)
ΜπελλοGreek(measured from records)

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)

Name associated with the ruler of Sokoto

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Bello is read(measured from records)

Bello is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish46%

    beautiful, fair

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

  • English35%

    A young man; sweetheart.

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bello 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 Bello is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria—≈830,000 est.≈1 in 257—Bello67
VE Venezuela#122≈43,000 est.≈1 in 673557Bello87
PH Philippines#647≈27,000 est.≈1 in 4K—Bello70
CO Colombia#273≈24,000 est.≈1 in 2K18Bello125
ES Spain#38321,268as Cabello1 in 2.4K21KBello168
US United States—16,9151 in 20K18KBello341
DO Dominican Republic#121≈8,800 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Bello64
UY Uruguay—3,0801 in 1.1K3.1K—51

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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Bello is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Beyo, Bellò, Belló, Bêllô, Bëllo

  • French surname22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Cameroon

    Languages: French, Swahili, Catalan

    Also written Beyo, Béllo, Belló, Bellò, Béllô

  • Indonesian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Philippines, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Bëllö, Béllo, Belló

  • Urdu surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi, Sinhala

    Also written বেলো, Belló, Bellò, Beĺlo

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Belló, Bellò, Bell-O, Béllo

65 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(measured from records)

Bello is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swahili, Name associated with the ruler of Sokoto

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • handsome; Brasil, Castelo Branca, Almeida, Portugal, Ciudad de Mexico, Chile, Smyrna

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Italian, forma italiana de Bellus

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Belli

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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)

17001800190020002100Muhammad Bello, b. 1781Andrés Bello, b. 1781Rómulo Betancourt, b. 1908Ahmadu Bello, b. 1910Walden Bello, b. 1945Frank Bello, b. 1965Ramón Medina Bello, b. 1966Maria Bello, b. 1967Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, b. 1988George Bello, b. 2002

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)

FormalEstimado/a Bello,Dear Bello, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Bello,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 62 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Bello
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202018K#1,971
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201017K#2,143
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—14K#381
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—14K#381
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200012K#2,779
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—3.1K—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—18#98
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 8

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Bello come from?
Name associated with the ruler of Sokoto Recorded by African Muslim Names.
How do you pronounce Bello?
A machine transcription gives /beʝo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Bello mean?
In Spanish, beautiful, fair
What are other forms of the name Bello?
In the etymology graph, Beldad is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Bello have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 832 thousand people named Bello in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bello.
How common is the name Bello?
In the United States, the national register counted 16,915 people named Bello in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
How common is Bello compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Bello is the 121st most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bello” — the 121st most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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