Belen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Belen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 13th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Spanish form of Bethlehem.
- ESSpain1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 1.5K
- UYUruguay≈1 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #634 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 345 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Spanish form of Bethlehem
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Belen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #516 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | listed | Belen | 101 |
| ES Spain | #80 | 34,039 | 1 in 1.5K | 34K | Belen | 217 |
| US United States | — | 13,397 | 1 in 25K | 13K | Belen | 345 |
| AR Argentina | #68 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 4.5K | Belen | 151 |
| CL Chile | #69 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 247 | Belen | 112 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Belen | 52 |
| UY Uruguay | #13 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Belen | 63 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Belen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, third-person plural present indicative of belar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Alternative spelling of Blin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, superessive singular of bél
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of bel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, nativity scene
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 34K | #126 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 34K | #229 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13K | #2,038 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 1K | #144 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 345 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 243 | #2,038 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2014 | 119 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 110 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 6 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Belen mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish form of Bethlehem Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Belen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Belen in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled belen.
- Where is Belen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Belen is densest in Spain — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- Is Belen a male or female name?
- Belen is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Belen?
- In Spain, the national register counted 34,039 people named Belen, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Belen compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Belen is the 516th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Belen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/belenThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Belen” — the 516th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.