Belle Girl
How popular is Belle?
#1,013 girl name in 2025
247 baby girls were named Belle in the US in 2025, making it the 1013th most popular girl name.
Belle popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,013 for girls (▼ 9 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 247 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-2% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,049 in 2015, #1,000 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1915 (407 girls) |
| Highest rank | #90 in 1880 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Belle counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Belle family of names ranked #875 for girls in 2025 (#885 the year before), with 255 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Belle | 247 | 97% |
| Bell | 8 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Belle is most popular
Babies named Belle per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Utah: 0.3 per 1,000 (24 girls)
- Minnesota: 0.3 per 1,000 (27 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.2 per 1,000 (59 girls)
- New Mexico: 0.2 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Nevada: 0.2 per 1,000 (11 girls)
Belle by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,648 | #90 |
| 1890s | 2,512 | #127 |
| 1900s | 2,096 | #181 |
| 1910s | 2,901 | #267 |
| 1920s | 1,545 | #436 |
| 1930s | 538 | #775 |
| 1940s | 429 | #1,101 |
| 1950s | 398 | #1,313 |
| 1960s | 261 | #1,924 |
| 1970s | 171 | #3,030 |
| 1980s | 112 | #4,108 |
| 1990s | 392 | #2,121 |
| 2000s | 1,297 | #1,395 |
| 2010s | 2,405 | #806 |
| 2020s | 1,522 | #971 |
Girl names about as popular as Belle
Questions
- Is Belle a boy or girl name?
- Belle is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Belle were girls.
- How popular is the name Belle?
- 247 baby girls were named Belle in the US in 2025, making it the 1013th most popular girl name.
- When was Belle most popular?
- Belle peaked in 1915, when 407 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #90 in 1880.
- How many people are named Belle?
- 19,227 babies have been named Belle in the US since 1880. We estimate about 6,880 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 13.
- Where is Belle most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Belle was most common in Utah, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.