Bellei

surname · Latin script

Meaning: var. de Belleli

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 265K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 89K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 700K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

800 people

Sources
50 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

var. de Belleli

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bellei 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 Bellei is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil8001 in 265K800Bellei50
IT Italy≈700 est.≈1 in 89K—Bellei15
FR France≈66 est.≈1 in 1M7——
AR Argentina311 in 1.5M31Bellei15
US United States≈25 est.≈1 in 13M—Bellei13
CL Chile≈16 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Bellei18
CH Switzerland121 in 700K12—1

800 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Bellei is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy

    Also written Belleï

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Belleï

31 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Gaetano Bellei, b. 1857Giuseppe Bellei, b. 1866Otello Bellei, b. 1906Mino Bellei, b. 1936Giordano Bellei, b. 1944Meris Bellei, b. 1951Gianluigi Bellei, b. 1953Riccardo Bellei, b. 1953Enrico Bellei, b. 1963Giacomo Bellei, b. 1988

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)

FormalPrezado(a) Bellei,Dear Bellei, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Bellei,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Bellei
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—800#11,256
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—31—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198115—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202412#53,184
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197110—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195110—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19418—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19318—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19917—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19212—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19111—

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Bellei mean, and where does it come from?
var. de Belleli Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
How do you pronounce Bellei?
A machine transcription gives /bɛllej/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Bellei have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 800 people named Bellei, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bellei.
How common is the name Bellei?
In Brazil, the national register counted 800 people named Bellei, about 1 in 265 thousand 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, “Bellei”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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