Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: ItalianBella is a feminine given name. It is a diminutive or nickname form of names ending in -bella, including Izabella and Isabella. However, it can also derive, unrelatedly, from the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin words for "beautiful".
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Bella yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
The bearer file for Bella includes Bella Swan, the protagonist of Twilight, recorded as a high school student born in 1987 — the third fictional character to appear in these lists, after Tom Cat under Jasper and J. Jonah Jameson under Jonah. In this case the fiction is arguably the most relevant entry: the name's peak on both measures, 5,135 births and rank 48, came in 2010, at the height of those films. A 40% fall since then leaves it at 2,469 births and rank 109. Recorded from 1880 but with only 81,582 births total, Bella functions as a short form of Isabella that broke away and now competes with its own parent name for the same children.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 13 | #469 |
| 1881 | 24 | #325 |
| 1882 | 16 | #459 |
| 1883 | 17 | #465 |
| 1884 | 31 | #358 |
| 1885 | 25 | #414 |
| 1886 | 22 | #460 |
| 1887 | 26 | #436 |
| 1888 | 31 | #443 |
| 1889 | 37 | #398 |
| 1890 | 42 | #385 |
| 1891 | 37 | #405 |
| 1892 | 53 | #365 |
| 1893 | 46 | #395 |
| 1894 | 35 | #476 |
| 1895 | 39 | #465 |
| 1896 | 43 | #441 |
| 1897 | 44 | #443 |
| 1898 | 39 | #493 |
| 1899 | 53 | #398 |
| 1900 | 73 | #389 |
| 1901 | 36 | #509 |
| 1902 | 53 | #426 |
| 1903 | 44 | #482 |
| 1904 | 43 | #500 |
| 1905 | 52 | #473 |
| 1906 | 54 | #463 |
| 1907 | 60 | #463 |
| 1908 | 65 | #449 |
| 1909 | 75 | #427 |
| 1910 | 73 | #467 |
| 1911 | 82 | #450 |
| 1912 | 113 | #442 |
| 1913 | 125 | #442 |
| 1914 | 152 | #443 |
| 1915 | 160 | #485 |
| 1916 | 207 | #438 |
| 1917 | 215 | #439 |
| 1918 | 238 | #428 |
| 1919 | 211 | #458 |
| 1920 | 188 | #506 |
| 1921 | 192 | #509 |
| 1922 | 178 | #528 |
| 1923 | 172 | #549 |
| 1924 | 134 | #648 |
| 1925 | 133 | #635 |
| 1926 | 106 | #703 |
| 1927 | 90 | #762 |
| 1928 | 73 | #846 |
| 1929 | 83 | #766 |
| 1930 | 64 | #909 |
| 1931 | 50 | #985 |
| 1932 | 47 | #1,032 |
| 1933 | 37 | #1,161 |
| 1934 | 45 | #1,035 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,382 |
| 1936 | 29 | #1,347 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,788 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,815 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,515 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,851 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,505 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,810 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,263 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,212 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,476 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,923 |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,414 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,862 |
| 1949 | 30 | #1,739 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,126 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,806 |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,613 |
| 1953 | 43 | #1,493 |
| 1954 | 28 | #1,990 |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,599 |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,197 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,281 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,875 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,347 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,104 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,613 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,469 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,630 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,754 |
| 1965 | 34 | #1,997 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,156 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,215 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,545 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,206 |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,358 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,175 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,288 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,568 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,440 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,619 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,689 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,007 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,789 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,250 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,341 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,019 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,661 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,562 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,009 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,631 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,747 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,301 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,331 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,070 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,723 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,596 |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,983 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,537 |
| 1994 | 76 | #1,866 |
| 1995 | 107 | #1,483 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,966 |
| 1997 | 95 | #1,658 |
| 1998 | 156 | #1,191 |
| 1999 | 185 | #1,085 |
| 2000 | 307 | #749 |
| 2001 | 413 | #609 |
| 2002 | 683 | #426 |
| 2003 | 974 | #317 |
| 2004 | 1,240 | #260 |
| 2005 | 1,664 | #208 |
| 2006 | 1,959 | #181 |
| 2007 | 2,260 | #157 |
| 2008 | 2,789 | #122 |
| 2009 | 4,539 | #58 |
| 2010 | 5,135 | #48 |
| 2011 | 4,278 | #60 |
| 2012 | 4,361 | #54 |
| 2013 | 4,189 | #58 |
| 2014 | 4,102 | #70 |
| 2015 | 3,812 | #74 |
| 2016 | 3,681 | #78 |
| 2017 | 4,664 | #50 |
| 2018 | 4,573 | #48 |
| 2019 | 4,396 | #50 |
| 2020 | 3,645 | #63 |
| 2021 | 3,366 | #73 |
| 2022 | 2,912 | #85 |
| 2023 | 2,559 | #106 |
| 2024 | 2,469 | #109 |
