Bella — #109 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Bella

The Social Security Administration has registered 81,537 babies named Bella between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bella currently holds the #109 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 5,135 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bella performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 43,191 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Bella shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 12,894 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Bella in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bella 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 81,537 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.