Belkys — girls' name
112 babies named Belkys in U.S. Social Security records since 1966, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
47% of everyone ever named Belkys was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Belkys in 1979 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Belkys
The Social Security Administration has registered 112 babies named Belkys between 1966 and 2003, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Belkys currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Belkys performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 53 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Belkys shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Belkys in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Belkys 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 112 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.
Belkys at a glance
Last recorded 2003Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Belkys popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2003–1966
- Peak year (1979)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 38 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2003.
112 total births across 38 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1979 with 9 births in a single year.
Belkys by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 53 births that decade — 47% of Belkys's all-time total
Belkys decade highlights
- Peak decade 53 births
- Runner-up 22 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Belkys's strongest decade
53 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
Belkys by state
Where Belkys concentrates geographically — total births since 1966
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Florida | | 10 | 8.9% |
10 of 112 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Florida 8.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Florida accounts for 8.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1966–2003 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.