Bella
For 2025 the count puts Bella at #136 nationwide, past its crest and settling. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 83,721 American bearers across the record.
Bella’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Bella, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Bella since 1880
Bella peaked in 2010 at #48; #136 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Bella is most common
The state that gives Bella most often, per girls born there, is New Mexico (0.39% in 2025); Hawaii and Alaska are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Bella
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Beckett
#141 in 2025
Brielle
#143 in 2025
Bryson
#152 in 2025
Brooklyn
#118 in 2025
Beckham
#168 in 2025
Barrett
#171 in 2025
Braxton
#172 in 2025
Bailey
#209 in 2025
Browse: names starting with B · all names
About Bella
How popular is the name Bella?
For 2025 the count puts Bella at #136 nationwide, past its crest and settling. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Bella?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Bella keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Is there a sibling name for Bella?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Beckett, Brielle and Bryson, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Bella’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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