Bely
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete spelling of belly
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bely is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 74K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 383K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
≈920 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Obsolete spelling of belly.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bely 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 74K | 103 | Bely | 162 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | listed | Bely | 13 |
| PL Poland | 100 | 1 in 383K | 98 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 30 | 1 in 7.1M | 33 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | Bely | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 3M | 14 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the reaney-english-surnames-1991 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
Bely 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 English, v. BEELEY
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- Viktor Belyb. 1904RURussian composer (1904–1983)
- Mykhailo Bilyib. 1922UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian and Soviet politician (1922–2001)
- Uladzimir Byelyb. 1922BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian physicist
- Mikhail Belyb. 1945RURussian diplomat
- G. V. Belyib. 1951RUnot in their usual namesoviet, Ukrainian, and Russian mathematician
- Oleksii Bilyib. 1961UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian politician
- Aliaksandr Bielyb. 1968BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian historian
- Anatoly Belyb. 1972RURussian actor
- Ruslan Belyb. 1979RURussian stand-up comic
- Artem Belyb. 1997BYBelarusian association football player
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 196 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 161 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 157 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 148 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 140 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 124 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 122 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 109 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 103 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 98 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 98 | #29,928 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 91 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Bely mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of belly. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Bely?
- In the etymology graph, BElie is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Bely?
- A machine transcription gives /bʎi/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Bely have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 920 people named Bely in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bely.
- How common is the name Bely?
- In Poland, the national register counted 100 people named Bely in 2026, about 1 in 383 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bely?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/belyThe 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, “Bely”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.