Bella

loc · Latin script

Meaning: From the Italian term of beautiful, but found in writings in Zagreb Beile today in Croatia

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

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

Bella is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 5K(measured from records)
  • RURussia≈1 in 13Kas Белла
  • ECEcuador1 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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bella 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.

United States (measured from records)

66,739 people, 2020

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
418 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BellaLatin(measured from records)
БеллаCyrillic(measured from records)
ԲելլաArmenian(measured from records)
ბელაGeorgian(measured from records)
벨라Hangul(measured from records)
ΜπελλαGreek(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Белла in RU Russia, ZW Zimbabwe, Vela in EC Ecuador, ბელა in GE Georgia and Բելլա in AM Armenia.

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)

From the Italian term of beautiful, but found in writings in Zagreb Beile today in Croatia.

Sources 1

  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bella 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 Bella is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—66,7391 in 5K67KBella418
HU Hungary—43,353as Béla1 in 22543K—2
EC Ecuador—11,0061 in 1.5K11KVela26
RU Russia#325≈11,000 est.≈1 in 13K#346Белла147
BR Brazil—7,4131 in 29K7.4K—3
GE Georgia—5,368as ბელა1 in 7455.4Kბელა39
SE Sweden—3,2331 in 3.2K3.2K—45
AM Armenia#441≈1,000 est.≈1 in 3K78Բելլա35
ZW Zimbabwe#138≈330 est.≈1 in 44K—Белла1

66,739 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Popular Newborn Names. 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)

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

  • Indonesian given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written 'Bella, Bella', Běllă, Běllā, Bélla

  • Italian surname37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Bellà, Bèlla, Bèllà, Bellä, Bëllà

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Bélla, Bėlla

  • a separate name24 spellings in the group

    Also written Bêllã, Bêllà, Béllã, Bêllä, Bēllã

  • Hindi name22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Béllä, Bêllâ, Bélla, Bêllä, Béllã

66 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)

Bella 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.

  • West African (Burkina Faso/Mali) name; Zerma: 'slave'/'freed slave'; Italian female name: 'beautiful'

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • In French, From Latin bella 'beautiful' or a short form of names like Isabella.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In Spanish, feminine singular of bello

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

  • In Swedish, Bella är en kortform till namn som → Isabella och → Gabriella, men kan också vara ett lån av femininformen av det italienska adjektivet bella ’vacker’. Det har blivit populärt som officiellt förnamn först under 2000-talet.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Italian, do lat. med. bella; cognome por beleza ímpar ou nome feminino

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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)

1850190019502000Bella Rosenfeld, b. 1889Bella Abzug, b. 1920Bella Darvi, b. 1928Norma Crane, b. 1928Bella Davidovich, b. 1928Bella Freud, b. 1961Erika Bella, b. 1972Nikki Bella, b. 1983Brie Bella, b. 1983Rachael Bella, b. 1984

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 138 sources across 69 countries.

Official registers attesting Bella
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202067K#755
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202411K#192
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20227.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—7.4K#2,092
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20205.1K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3.2K#789
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103K#10,668
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.3K#12,598
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.2K#12,883
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20252.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.8K—
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024)2024326#30

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

How common is the name Bella?
In the United States, the national register counted 66,739 people named Bella in 2020, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
How common is Bella compared with other names?
In Zimbabwe, Bella is the 138th most common given name of 4,125 given names recorded there.
What does the name Bella mean, and where does it come from?
From the Italian term of beautiful, but found in writings in Zagreb Beile today in Croatia. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
In which country does Bella have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 67 thousand people named Bella, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bella.
Where is Bella most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bella is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How do you pronounce Bella?
A machine transcription gives /bɛlə/ (IPA) for English.

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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, “Bella” — the 138th most common given name in Zimbabwe. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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