Belen — #668 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Belen

The Social Security Administration has registered 11,940 babies named Belen between 1909 and 2024, spanning 116 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Belen currently holds the #668 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 430 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Belen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,107 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Belen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 4,247 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Belen in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Belen 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 11,940 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.