How Many People Are Named Belle?
people named Belle are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 50,314 people in the US has this name
Based on 19,227 babies named Belle in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
๐๐ Very Rare
Peak Year
407 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
๐ Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Short form of ISABELLA or names ending in belle. It is also associated with the French word belle meaning "beautiful". A famous bearer was Belle Starr (1848-1889), an outlaw of the American west, whose real given name was Maybelle.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
โง Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Belle in the records were girls.
๐ฅ Age Distribution
The average person named Belle alive today is about 22 years old, and 80% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 24 in 2025.
๐ Popularity Over Time
Belle first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1915, to 407 babies. In 2025, 247 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
๐ Rank History
Belle never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #90, in 1880, and it was in the top 100 for 5 years, 1880 to 1884. In 2025 it ranked #1,013.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,013 |
| Best rank | #90 (1880) |
| Years in the top 100 | 5 (1880 to 1884) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #318 in the 1910s |
๐ State-Wise Distribution
People named Belle alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Belle were born in California than in any other state: about 909 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Belle was given 2.4 times as often in New York, 2.3 times in Utah and 1.5 times in California.
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