Believe
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- bih-LEEV
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Believe is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “to trust, have faith”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Believe mean?
English: English word believe
“to trust, have faith”
Is Believe a girl's or a boy's name?
Believe is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls and 5 boys in the US.
How popular is Believe in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Believe, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2014. 5 boys were also named Believe in 2025 (12,003rd for boys).
2025 had more girls named Believe than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Believe in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Believe in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
Names like Believe
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Olive, Birdie, Grace, Evie, Hallie, Millie, Daisy, Phoebe, Nellie, Alice, Estelle, Josie
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Violet, Willow, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hazel, Carter, Harrison
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Believe: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/believe, updated 20 October 2026.