Bela — #4562 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Bela

The Social Security Administration has registered 788 babies named Bela between 1913 and 2024, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bela currently holds the #4562 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 44 babies received it in a single year. Bela is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 485 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bela performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 290 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Bela shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 102 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Bela in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bela in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 788 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.