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Bella

Pronounced /ˈbɛlə/

Rank in 2024
#109
Born in 2024
2,469
Peak year
2010 · #48
Origin
Italian

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 2,469 girls were named Bella, about 1 in every 653.
  • It peaked in 2010 with 5,135 babies, ranked #48.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 81,537 girls have been named Bella since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Bella per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.2
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 1.1
    Gen Z
  7. 2.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 3,251 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Silent: 632 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 546 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 361 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 595 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 31,038 babies, 1.07 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 44,368 babies, 2.18 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Italian: a diminutive of Isabella and Arabella, by folk etymology interpreted as bella (“beautiful”).

  • A female given name from Italian.
Origin
Italian
Say it
/ˈbɛlə/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Bella, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Belle

    Rank
    #1,006
    Born '24
    254
    Origin
    English
    1880peak 19152024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Baila

    Rank
    #1,432
    Born '24
    155
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20242024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Beulah

    Rank
    #5,108
    Born '24
    26
    Origin
    Hebrew
    1880peak 19162024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Billy

    Rank
    #8,334
    Born '24
    13
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19302024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Belia

    Rank
    unranked
    Born '24
    0
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19312024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Billi

    Rank
    unranked
    Born '24
    0
    Origin
    Germanic
    1880peak 19762024