Bellamy

At the 2020 census, 16,458 Americans bore the surname Bellamy — 2,147th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,200.

By the numbers

People: 16,458
Rank: 2,147th
How common: 1 in 18,200
Per 100,000: 5.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Anglo-Norman

Of Norman origin, from Old French bel (“fair”) + ami (“friend”). Could also be a locational surname from the Norman town of Bêlleme (Belesme).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bellamy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 51.4%
White, not Hispanic 39.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Bellamy

Matt Bellamy (born 1978)English singer-songwriter, member of Muse
Craig Bellamy (born 1979)Welsh association football manager
Edward Bellamy (1850–1898)American author and socialist
Ralph Bellamy (1904–1991)American actor
Samuel Bellamy (1689–1717)English pirate
Madge Bellamy (1899–1990)American actress
Walt Bellamy (1939–2013)American basketball player
David Bellamy (1933–2019)English professor, botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner

People named Bellamy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bellamy

Also a first name

Bellamy has been given to 6,759 American babies as a first name since 1993, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.