Belle
Belle is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 254 births. Its best rank was 90th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2540.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 1915407 births
- Best rank
- #90in 1880
- Since 1880
- 18,976people given the name
The story in the numbers
18,976 girls have been named Belle in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 407 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1917, and the 1910s alone account for 15%. It has spent 61 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 5 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Belle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,648 | |
| 1890s | 2,512 | |
| 1900s | 2,096 | |
| 1910s | 2,901 | |
| 1920s | 1,545 | |
| 1930s | 538 | |
| 1940s | 429 | |
| 1950s | 398 | |
| 1960s | 261 | |
| 1970s | 171 | |
| 1980s | 112 | |
| 1990s | 392 | |
| 2000s | 1,295 | |
| 2010s | 2,405 | |
| 2020s | 1,273 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Belle was the 288th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Belle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mertiepeak 1918
- Maudepeak 1888
- Lizziepeak 1919
- Lidapeak 1918
- Mintapeak 1921
- Minniepeak 1916
- Dociapeak 1890
- Lillapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.