Bély
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bély is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 74K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 383K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
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
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
≈920 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, 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 Bely in FR France, US United States, GB United Kingdom.
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.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bély 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 74K | 103 | Bely | 162 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | listed | Bely | 13 |
| PL Poland | 100 | 1 in 383K | 98 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 30 | 1 in 7.1M | 33 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | Bely | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 3M | 14 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mihály Bélyb. 1863HUfencer, sports official (1863-1920)
- Miklós Bélyb. 1913HUHungarian chess player (1913-1970)
- Miklós Bélyb. 1948HUHungarian physician
- Lucien Bélyb. 1955FRFrench historian
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Bély have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 920 people named Bély in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bely.
- How common is the name Bély?
- In Poland, the national register counted 100 people named Bély in 2026, about 1 in 383 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bély?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A9lyThe 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, “Bély”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.