Belle

At the 2020 census, 3,918 Americans bore the surname Belle — 8,102nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 76,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,918
Rank: 8,102nd
How common: 1 in 76,300
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin French

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 58.8%
White, not Hispanic 27.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Belle

Camilla Belle (born 1986)American actress
David Belle (born 1973)French actor
Lexi Belle (born 1987)American pornographic actress
Regina Belle (born 1963)American singer
Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761–1804)British aristocrat
Annie Belle (1956–2024)French actress
Lisa van Belle (born 2004)cyclist
Valentina Bellè (born 1992)Italian actress

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

Surnames like Belle

Also a first name

Belle has been given to 19,227 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1915. 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.