Bellingham
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Bellingham’, Greater London or Northumberland (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/bɛlɪnd͡ʒəm/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Bellingham is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
How to pronounce Bellingham
- English:/bɛlɪnd͡ʒəm/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘person from Bellingham’, Greater London or Northumberland
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bellingham counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 445 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 7 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 7 | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | — |
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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Bellingham is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Bellingham (Kent, Northumberland), or Bellingham Farm in Highworth, Wiltshire; first attested William de Belingham 1274 RH (Norfolk)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, William de Belingham 1274 RH (Nf); John de Belyngham 1327 LLB E; Harry Belyngham 1401 Paston. From Bellingham (K, Nb), or Bellingham Fm in Highworth (W).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A placename:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, This family is prominent in Co. Louth since the seventeenth century. There are three places in England so called Castlebellingham in Co. Louth perpetuates this family. Bibl
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)- John Bellinghamb. 1769GBEnglish assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval
- Jude Bellinghamb. 2003GBEnglish footballer (born 2003)
- Johan Bellinghamb. 2005GBEnglish footballer (born 2005)
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bellingham mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Bellingham’, Greater London or Northumberland Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Bellingham?
- In English /bɛlɪnd͡ʒəm/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Bellingham have the most bearers?
- Bellingham is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bellinghamThe 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, “Bellingham” — ranked 47614th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.