Bellamy
Bellamy is given to both girls and boys: 341 girls and 374 boys were given it in 2025 (#797 among girls’ names and #721 among boys’, #887 among all names counting both); 6,759 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Bellamy every year since 2021.
An estimated 6,720 Americans named Bellamy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bellamy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bellamy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bellamy is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “fair” (bel) and “friend” (ami).
Of Norman origin, from Old French bel (“fair”) + ami (“friend”). Could also be a locational surname from the Norman town of Bêlleme (Belesme).
/ˈbɛləmi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bellamy?
#797 among girls’ names, 2025
Bellamy rose from #1,293 in 2015 to #797 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.21 per 1,000.
850 babies in 2022, the peak
Bellamy peaked in 2022, when 850 babies were given it (408 girls, #718 among girls’ names). The 715 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 84% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 341 | #797 | 374 | #721 |
| 2024 | 314 | #861 | 395 | #688 |
| 2023 | 330 | #833 | 348 | #750 |
| 2022 | 408 | #718 | 442 | #629 |
| 2021 | 373 | #764 | 447 | #621 |
| 2020 | 341 | #798 | 335 | #734 |
| 2019 | 253 | #1,017 | 270 | #834 |
| 2018 | 275 | #961 | 182 | #1,086 |
| 2017 | 249 | #1,036 | 135 | #1,332 |
| 2016 | 234 | #1,098 | 57 | #2,306 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 186 | #1,293 | 24 | #4,189 |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,879 | 5 | #12,307 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,176 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,222 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,138 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,366 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,383 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,573 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,592 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,738 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,038 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,797 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,254 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,777 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,687 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Bellamy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,759 Americans recorded as Bellamy, 55% are girls and 45% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bellamy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bellamy, and how old are they?
6,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,759 Americans ever recorded as Bellamy. The median Bellamy alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 2,272 people named Bellamy (1,609 women and girls, 663 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,465 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 271 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,440 |
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 Bellamy born?
The states with the most babies named Bellamy are Texas, Ohio and California, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 71 | #954 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 51 | #507 | 1.1× |
| California | 48 | #881 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 46 | #773 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 38 | #493 | 1.3× |
| Indiana | 23 | #548 | 1.3× |
| Missouri | 23 | #742 | 1.2× |
| Kentucky | 22 | #310 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 21 | #859 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 20 | #548 | 1.1× |
Where Bellamy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bellamy is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1993 it was given 1.9 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 Bellamy 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 7,714 babies since 1880, Bellamy is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 715 of their 797 babies (90%), again the most given.
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 Bellamy
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 Bellamy and names like it
- Compare Bellamy and BellamiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBellamy peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bellamy since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Bellamy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Bellamy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bellamy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.