How rare is the name Belle?

6,261 people in the United States have the first name Belle, about 1 in 48,240. It ranks #3,379 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

BELLE

#3,379

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,261
About
1 in 48,240
This common or more
82.3%
Who bears it

Of the 6,261 people named Belle, 64.5% reported their origin as White, 12.9% as Hispanic or Latino and 10.3% as Asian or Pacific Islander. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Belle peaked in 1915, when 407 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1915
Births that year
407
In 2025*
247 ▼39%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 19,227 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Belle by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #175. The largest share of babies named Belle, 31.5%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1752,648
1890s#2402,512
1900s#3262,096
1910s#5712,901
1920s#1,0551,545
1930s#1,759538
1940s#2,235429
1950s#2,720398
1960s#3,762261
1970s#5,910171
1980s#9,319112
1990s#5,042392
2000s#2,7741,297
2010s#1,9362,405
2020s#1,8991,522
Before 190128.4%
Greatest Generation 1901–2731.5%
Silent Generation 1928–455%
Baby boom 1946–643.9%
Generation X 1965–801.5%
Millennials 1981–961.6%
Generation Z 1997–1210.1%
2013 and later18%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Belle is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Belle has been most common in New York (2.4×), Utah (2.3×), and North Carolina (1.4×), and least common in Iowa (0.31×).

7,547 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Belle

#3,376 Kayleen · 6,263#3,378 Genoveva · 6,262#3,380 Mervin · 6,257#3,381 Lon · 6,253

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Belle, most common first.

#755 Bella · 66,739#11,725 Bell · 1,082#37,821 Belly · 205#49,348 Bello · 126

Also a last name

As a last name, Belle ranks #8,102 of 156,621, with 3,918 people. See Belle as a last name

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