Bello

17,887 people in the United States were counted with the surname Bello in the 2020 census, making it the 1,971st most common in the country. That is about one person in 16,700.

By the numbers

People: 17,887
Rank: 1,971st
How common: 1 in 16,700
Per 100,000: 6.0

Where the name comes from

As an Italian and Spanish surname, from the adjective bello (“handsome, beautiful”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 62.6%
White, not Hispanic 20.6%
Black, not Hispanic 11.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Bello

Maria Bello (born 1967)American actress
Ramón Medina Bello (born 1966)Argentine association football player
Andrés Bello (1781–1865)Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist
George Bello (born 2002)American soccer player
Walden Bello (born 1945)Philippine political economist and socialist politician
Frank Bello (born 1965)American bassist
Ahmadu Bello (1910–1966)Nigerian politician
Menachem Bello (born 1947)Israeli footballer

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

Surnames like Bello

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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.