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Bellah

Girl · BEL-a · Italian

Bellah is a girls' name of Italian origin, meaning “beautiful”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

What does Bellah mean?

Italian: spelling of Bella

“beautiful”

Also a short form of Isabella and Arabella.

Say it
BEL-a

Meaning borrowed from Bella. More on Wiktionary.

Is Bellah a girl's or a boy's name?

Bellah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Bellah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#11,928among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling fastdown 73% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Bellah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,878th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 42 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.

Half of all the girls named Bellah in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,157 girls in the US were given Bellah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #164, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.

2003Busiest: 42 in 20122025
Bellah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#11,928
202411#8,941
20237#12,192
202210#9,674
202111#8,973
202026#4,878
201928#4,772
201838#3,852
201727#4,920
201619#6,398
201530#4,583
201434#4,267
201333#4,334
201242#3,710
201136#4,071
201037#4,022
200934#4,369
200827#5,277
200712#9,535
200614#8,234
20058#11,828
20046#14,172
20035#15,777

Names like Bellah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Bellah

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