Bellah
Bellah was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,107 among girls’ names; 502 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bellah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bellah?
#12,107 among girls’ names, 2025
Bellah fell from #4,607 in 2015 to #12,107 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 4.4 per million.
42 babies in 2012, the peak
Bellah peaked in 2012, when 42 girls were given it, #3,720 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,107 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,027 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,359 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,789 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,059 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,900 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,789 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,860 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,942 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,451 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,607 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,277 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,343 | 18.8 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,720 | 23.8 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,081 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,038 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,380 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,306 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,635 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,303 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,994 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,439 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,115 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bellah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bellah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bellah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bellah, and how old are they?
An estimated 498 Americans named Bellah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 364 people named Bellah (360 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 434 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Bellah?
Bellah is a less common spelling of Bella: SSA has recorded 502 Bellah and 83,766 Bella since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 183,769 babies since 1880, Bellah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 2,424 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Bellah
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 Bellah and names like it
- Compare Bellah and BellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBellah peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bellah since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Bellah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bellah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.