Belem — girls' name

What the Data Says About Belem

The Social Security Administration has registered 296 babies named Belem between 1951 and 2019, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Belem currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 19 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Belem performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 108 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Belem shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 35 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Belem in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Belem 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 296 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.