In 2025, 345 US girls were named Belen, making it the 785th most common girls’ name of the year, down 114 places from #671 in 2024. That is 86 fewer than the 431 girls named Belen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #671, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 431. For comparison, it was #927 in 2015 and #1,551 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Belen in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 8 babies. In all, 12,366 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,113 babies named Belen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,527 US girls were named Belen; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 431. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,659 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Belen ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #394 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Belem, Bilan and Bilen are summarised on this page.