Bellai
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma plural de Bellaio
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/bɛɫaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bellai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.5M
- BRBrazil1 in 5.3M
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)
705 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)forma plural de Bellaio
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bellai 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.
705 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Bellai is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Variante di Belli
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)- Eszter Bellaib. 1956HU(1956–)
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 718 | #163 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 705 | #7,151 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 40 | #122,472 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5 | #78,491 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #171,601 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Bellai mean, and where does it come from?
- forma plural de Bellaio Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Bellai?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛɫaɪ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Bellai have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 705 people named Bellai, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bellai most common?
- Bellai is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bellai?
- In India, the national register counted 705 people named Bellai, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bellaiThe 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, “Bellai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.