Belo
loc · Latin script
Meaning: beautiful
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Belo is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
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)beautiful
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Belo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 718 | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 659 | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 450 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 194 | — |
| IN India | — | 128 | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)Belo 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 Portuguese, beautiful; attractive (having beauty)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
— žr. Belazaras
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Kurdish, A form of the name Belî, one who is distinguished and prominent
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Serbo-Croatian, neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of beo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of belar
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)- Bello of Carcassonneb. 770FRnot in their usual nameCount of Carcassonne
- Belo Klein-Tesnoskalskýb. 1853Slovakian writer (1853–1941)
- Ruy Belob. 1933PTPortuguese writer (1933–1978)
- María Belob. 1938PTPortuguese politician, psychologist and feminist activist, member of the European Parliament of the second and third term from 1988 to 1994
- Vicki Belob. 1956PHFilipino dermatologist and television personality
- Sergei Belob. 1970RUIsraeli ice hockey player
- Patricia Kramerb. 1979UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan lyricist
- Belo Ciprianib. 1980GTAmerican memoirist
- Ana Paula Belob. 1987BRBrazilian handball player
- Imelda Ximenes Belob. 1998TLTimorese swimmer
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)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 60K | #390 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 718 | #34,057 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 659 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 634 | #35,489 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 536 | #38,771 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 450 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 129 | #1,089 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 128 | #24,162 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- 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 Belo mean, and where does it come from?
- beautiful Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- In which country does Belo have the most bearers?
- Belo is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Belo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beloThe 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, “Belo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.