Bella
About 83,766 American babies have been named Bella since 1880, most of them around 2010. In 2025 it ranked 136th. About 79,000 Bellas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 83,766
- Estimated living today
- 79,000
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2010
- Best rank
- 48th
- Rank in 2025
- 136th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 83,721 / 45
How old the living Bellas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 83,766 babies given the name since 1880, about 79,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 67,000 of them are children and 510 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Italian
From Italian: a diminutive of Isabella and Arabella, by folk etymology interpreted as bella (“beautiful”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Bellas
- Bella Thorne (born 1997)American actress and singer
- Bella Hadid (born 1996)American model
- Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010)Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator
- Bella Ramsey (born 2003)British actor
- Bella Abzug (1920–1998)American politician
- Bella Heathcote (born 1987)Australian actress
- Bella Darvi (1928–1971)actress
- Bella Moretti (born 1989)American pornographic actress
People named Bella with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Bella is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bella is most concentrated in Nevada (3.6×), Arizona (2.1×), Florida (2.0×), California (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2010
The most popular girls’ names the year Bella peaked:
Bella elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Bella | 14,623 | 52nd |
| France girls | Bella +1 spelling | 2,020 | 381st |
| New Zealand girls | Bella | 1,671 | 27th |
| Ireland girls | Bella | 896 | 73rd |
| Scotland girls | Bella | 892 | 61st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Bella | 565 | 37th |
| Norway girls | Bella | 367 | 158th |
| Belgium girls | Bella | 161 | 553rd |
| Switzerland girls | Bella | 142 | 387th |
| Sweden girls | Bella | 132 | 97th |
| Poland girls | Bella | 126 birth registrations | 279th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Bella: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Bella | 103 | 0.008% | 386th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Bella | 36 | 0.008% | 312th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Bella | 3 | 0.005% | 188th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Bella is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 34 of them.
Bella: rank by region
In 2025, Bella was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Bella | 836 | 5 |
In 2016, Bella was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Bella | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Bella was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Bella | 190 | 3 |
| Mazowieckie | Bella | 276 | 3 |
| Śląskie | Bella | 219 | 3 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Bella appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (260th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Bella by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 61 | 193rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Bella among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Bella | 571 | 886 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Bella lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,856 women called Bella were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huelva | Bella | 557 | 2.052 | 92 |
| Cádiz | Bella | 75 | 0.117 | 544 |
| Sevilla | Bella | 106 | 0.105 | 551 |
| Girona | Bella | 36 | 0.087 | 893 |
| Tarragona | Bella | 37 | 0.085 | 948 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Bella | 25 | 0.079 | 908 |
Listed in 38 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 14 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Bella against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.