Beli
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Smyrna
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɛɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Beli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- ESSpain≈1 in 77K(inferred from the name graph)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 102K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 174K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)
≈940 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Spain, est.
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)
Smyrna
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Beli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Beli | 11 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 410K | — | Beli | 45 |
| ES Spain | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Beli | 4 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 102K | 148 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Beli | 14 |
| PE Peru | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 356K | — | Beli | 4 |
| CL Chile | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 242K | 1 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 52 | 1 in 4.1M | 1.2K | — | — |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Beli 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 Romanian, vb., in compuse : 1. Belibou (Sur X); - Nastase (Sd V 94); Belibdu, fam. (M Put 131). 2. Belicane, Stan (Isp IV). 3. Belivacd, N., act. ; - cartier In Craiuva. si + si + si si + +
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In men, skilful, clever ; tr. v., to know, to under- stand how to do a thing. Negi Joni ngi wéa ngulu- beli-mo, I wish to become a clever workman in wood
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In tuw-pro, 1 hysterics 2 silly
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In tuw-pro, 1 pale 2 to whiten
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Russian, var of Beloi.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Gwylog ap Belib. 601Ruler of Kingdom of Powys
- Iorwerth Belib. 1250British poet
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,868 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 148 | #2,739 |
Reference works 3
- 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 Beli mean, and where does it come from?
- Smyrna Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Beli?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɛɫi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Beli a male or female name?
- Beli 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.
- In which country does Beli have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 936 people named Beli in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beli.
- How common is the name Beli?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 52 people named Beli in 2022, about 1 in 4.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Beli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beliThe 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, “Beli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.