Belia
Belia was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 2,058 Americans have been recorded with it between 1909 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Belia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 47 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Belia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Belia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,707, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
51 babies in 1931, the peak
Belia peaked in 1931, when 51 girls were given it, #974 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #13,707 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,673 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,095 | 7.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,526 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,571 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,931 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,011 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,848 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,115 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,391 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 10 | #10,554 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,158 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,249 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,716 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,848 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,589 | 4.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,950 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,358 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,740 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,377 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,296 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,109 | 5.2 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,192 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,647 | 4.4 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,383 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,351 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,583 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,500 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,375 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,070 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,232 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,178 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,906 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,173 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,536 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,060 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,242 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,243 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,171 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,063 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,324 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,834 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,751 | 16.4 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,958 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,119 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,470 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,010 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,353 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,456 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,207 | 16.4 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,533 | 12.7 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,871 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,269 | 14.2 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,922 | 17.8 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,725 | 21.3 |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,198 | 13.3 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,025 | 14.9 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,069 | 13.7 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,719 | 18.9 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,806 | 17.4 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,739 | 18.0 |
| 1953 | 36 | #1,649 | 19.1 |
| 1952 | 40 | #1,524 | 21.6 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,704 | 17.8 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,681 | 18.1 |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,545 | 21.0 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,746 | 17.1 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,823 | 15.8 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,419 | 24.2 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,515 | 22.2 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,487 | 22.6 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,593 | 20.1 |
| 1942 | 33 | #1,419 | 24.4 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,957 | 14.9 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,552 | 21.9 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,428 | 24.6 |
| 1938 | 35 | #1,232 | 31.7 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,638 | 20.7 |
| 1936 | 32 | #1,268 | 30.8 |
| 1935 | 34 | #1,222 | 32.4 |
| 1934 | 46 | #1,019 | 44.1 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,404 | 26.8 |
| 1932 | 40 | #1,130 | 37.5 |
| 1931 | 51 | #974 | 47.9 |
| 1930 | 46 | #1,085 | 40.9 |
| 1929 | 44 | #1,107 | 39.4 |
| 1928 | 41 | #1,190 | 35.5 |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,306 | 31.0 |
| 1926 | 35 | #1,329 | 29.5 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,538 | 23.8 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,479 | 25.6 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,902 | 17.4 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,196 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,959 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,479 | 11.7 |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,994 | 15.9 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,840 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,663 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,291 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,829 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,677 | 6.6 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,242 | 14.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Belia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Belia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 102 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Belia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Belia, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 58% of the 2,058 Americans ever recorded as Belia. The median Belia alive today is 64 years old; half are between 47 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 3,335 people named Belia (3,331 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,346 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 161 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 472 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 275 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 117 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 89 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 76 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Belia born?
The states with the most babies named Belia are Texas, California and Arizona, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,178 | not ranked | 9.0× |
| California | 230 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Arizona | 49 | not ranked | 2.8× |
Where Belia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Belia is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 9.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Belia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 108,381 babies since 1880, Belia is the third most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,413 babies recorded by SSA was a Belia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Belia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Belia and names like it
- Compare Belia and BellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sBelia peaked in 1931.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Belia since 1910.
- The top names of 1931The year the most babies were named Belia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Belia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.