Bëll

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Bëll is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cuba it is the 46th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 64K
  • ARArgentina1 in 79K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

220,599 people, 2010

Sources
274 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bell in US United States, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 1 more.

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)

Derivation of Bëll: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Bëll
  1. Middle Englishbelle(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishbelle“bell”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Germanic*bellǭ(measured from records)

From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel, Dutch bel, Low German Belle, Bel, Danish bjelde, Swedish bjällra, Norwegian bjelle, Icelandic bjalla.

Sources 8

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames
  • Scottish Surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bëll 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 Bëll is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—220,5991 in 1.5K267KBell274
ES Spain—7771 in 64K777Bell69
BR Brazil—7631 in 277K763—1
NO Norway—6181 in 8.8K618—5
AR Argentina—5731 in 79K573Bell68
GY Guyana—1291 in 5.8K129——
GD Grenada—431 in 2.6K43——
DM Dominica—411 in 1.8K41——
KN St. Kitts & Nevis—81 in 6.7K8——
CU Cuba#46———Bell23

220,599 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)

Bëll is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname47 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Bell, 벨, Bael, Bèll, Bēll

  • French surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Bell, Bell', Bèll, Bėlĺ, Bėll

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, Portugal

    Also written Bell, Béll, Bêll

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bëll under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bëll mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and Scottish Surnames and 6 other sources.
In which country does Bëll have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 221 thousand people named Bëll, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bell.
Where is Bëll most common?
Bëll is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Bëll?
In the United States, the national register counted 220,599 people named Bëll in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
How common is Bëll compared with other names?
In Cuba, Bëll is the 46th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bëll” — the 46th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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