Bellú

surname · Latin script

Bellú is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Greek Μπέλλος (Béllos).

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 494K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.2M
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.6M

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.

Argentina (measured from records)

39 people

Sources
18 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 494K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bellu in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, ES Spain.

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)

Borrowed from Greek Μπέλλος (Béllos).

Sources 1

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bellú 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 Bellú is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina391 in 1.2M39Bellu17
BR Brazil251 in 8.5M25Bellu4
CH Switzerland171 in 494K17—1
ES Spain121 in 4.2M12Bellu3
NL Netherlands111 in 1.6M11——
BE Belgium21 in 5.9M2——

39 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)

Bellú is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: French, Italian

    Also written Bellu, Bellù

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 Bellú 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 Bellú mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Greek Μπέλλος (Béllos). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Bellú have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 39 people named Bellú, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bellu.
Where is Bellú most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bellú is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 494 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bellú?
In Argentina, the national register counted 39 people named Bellú, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

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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, “Bellú”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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