Belin

surname · Latin script

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

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

Belin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SESweden1 in 20K
  • BEBelgium1 in 36K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,400 people, est.

Sources
258 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

1. Korku, ürkü. 2. Şaşkınlık, hayret.

Sources 2

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Belin 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 Belin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#678≈6,400 est.≈1 in 11K828Belin258
US United States—2,3981 in 139K2.4KBelin125
BR Brazil—5381 in 394K538——
SE Sweden—5121 in 20K512Belin11
IT Italy—≈350 est.≈1 in 180KlistedBelin9
BE Belgium—3301 in 36K330Belin25
HR Croatia—851 in 50K85——
FI Finland—≈80 est.≈1 in 69K15——

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)

Belin is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Belîn, Bélïn

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Belín, Beliñ, Bélin, Bělín

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Belín, Bělín

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, United States, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Белин

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Bělín

  • Russian surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Белин, Билин, Белін, Билін, Білін

47 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)

Belin is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In kr, a. i) new, e. g. band belin, a new hoe. •2) fresh, e.g. argent belin, new millet (of this year's growth.) belin tsai, very new, quite fresh

    as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)

  • In trk-pro, hawk

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Turkish, genitive singular of bel

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

  • In otk, panic, terror

    as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)

  • In trk-pro, ястреб

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Turkish, 1. Korku, ürkü. 2. Şaşkınlık, hayret.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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)

1400160018002000Julien Belin, b. 1530Jacques Nicolas Belin de Ballu, b. 1753François Alphonse Belin, b. 1817Édouard Belin, b. 1876Gilbert Belin, b. 1927Bruno Belin, b. 1929Rudolf Belin, b. 1942Valérie Belin, b. 1964Esther Belin, b. 1968Bertrand Belin, b. 1970

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Belin, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 46 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Belin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.4K#12,837
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202K#14,287
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002K#14,101
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19611.1K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19511.1K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941958—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921915—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981889—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971886—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991828—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931806—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901769—

Reference works 5

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 do you pronounce Belin?
A machine transcription gives /bəlɛ̃/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Belin have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.4 thousand people named Belin in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled belin.
How common is the name Belin?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,398 people named Belin in 2010, about 1 in 139 thousand residents.
How common is Belin compared with other names?
In France, Belin is the 678th most common surname of 1,200,812 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, “Belin” — the 678th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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