Belony
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Dérivé de Belon, de l’ancien français bel « beau »
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Belony is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 58K(measured from records)
- GDGrenada1 in 113K
- USUnited States1 in 834K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
399 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Dérivé de Belon, de l’ancien français bel « beau ».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Where in the world(measured from records)
Belony 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.
399 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 510 | #45,217 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 399 | #52,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 233 | #76,700 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 39 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 38 | #126,822 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 18 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Belony mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dérivé de Belon, de l’ancien français bel « beau ».
- In which country does Belony have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 399 people named Belony, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled belony.
- Where is Belony most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Belony is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Belony?
- In the United States, the national register counted 399 people named Belony in 2010, about 1 in 834 thousand residents.
- How common is Belony compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Belony is the 736th most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/belonyThe 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, “Belony” — the 736th most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.