Bell — #13430 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Bell

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,488 babies named Bell between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bell currently holds the #13430 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1900, when 63 babies received it in a single year. Bell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 130 additional births since 1905.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bell performed strongest in the 1890s, accumulating 511 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Bell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 64 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by South Carolina and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Bell in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bell 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 2,488 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.