Meaning not yet researched.
Bell: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #275 in 1884.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #275 in 1884; #11,097 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bell in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,097 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1884, at #275.
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Bell: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #275 in 1884 · most girls in one year: 63 (1900).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Bell, making it the 11,097th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,640 places from #13,737 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 6 girls named Bell in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #275, reached in 1884. The most girls given the name in a single year was 63, in 1900. For comparison, it was #13,216 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bell in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 31 babies. In all, 2,626 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 5.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1890s, with 511 babies named Bell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 67 US girls were named Bell; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bella (83,766 babies since 1880), Belle (19,227 babies since 1880) and Bill (161,190 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bell in the open dataset we use.
Bell is listed as a nickname for Isabel, William.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,097 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,737 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,363 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,380 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,417 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,355 | — | — |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,818 | — | — |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,079 | — | — |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,216 | — | — |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,122 | — | — |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,956 | — | — |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,300 | — | — |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,124 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,453 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,615 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,944 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,803 | — | — |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #8,830 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,335 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,535 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,132 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,890 | — | — |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,087 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,339 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,754 | — | — |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,072 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,934 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,489 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,894 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,808 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,151 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,884 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,919 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,300 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,029 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,470 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,409 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,624 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,748 | — | — |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,424 | — | — |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,546 | — | — |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,435 | — | — |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,962 | — | — |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,956 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,453 | 5 | #3,691 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,439 | — | — |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,507 | 5 | #3,825 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,708 | — | — |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,015 | 8 | #3,007 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,907 | 9 | #2,865 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,891 | 6 | #3,815 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,547 | 6 | #3,743 |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,580 | 10 | #2,819 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,304 | 5 | #4,388 |
| 1920 | 42 | #1,175 | 6 | #3,860 |
| 1919 | 49 | #1,027 | 5 | #4,211 |
| 1918 | 50 | #1,019 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 1917 | 31 | #1,312 | 5 | #4,037 |
| 1916 | 47 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1915 | 47 | #970 | 13 | #2,077 |
| 1914 | 35 | #1,006 | 6 | #2,950 |
| 1913 | 40 | #831 | 7 | #2,294 |
| 1912 | 58 | #660 | — | — |
| 1911 | 43 | #659 | — | — |
| 1910 | 50 | #584 | — | — |
| 1909 | 29 | #747 | — | — |
| 1908 | 31 | #700 | — | — |
| 1907 | 33 | #652 | 5 | #1,362 |
| 1906 | 40 | #555 | — | — |
| 1905 | 45 | #506 | 8 | #933 |
| 1904 | 34 | #576 | — | — |
| 1903 | 48 | #462 | — | — |
| 1902 | 43 | #480 | — | — |
| 1901 | 52 | #414 | — | — |
| 1900 | 63 | #423 | — | — |
| 1899 | 52 | #402 | — | — |
| 1898 | 58 | #405 | — | — |
| 1897 | 44 | #442 | — | — |
| 1896 | 51 | #396 | — | — |
| 1895 | 46 | #417 | — | — |
| 1894 | 43 | #422 | — | — |
| 1893 | 42 | #415 | — | — |
| 1892 | 59 | #344 | — | — |
| 1891 | 55 | #340 | — | — |
| 1890 | 61 | #324 | — | — |
| 1889 | 55 | #334 | — | — |
| 1888 | 45 | #357 | — | — |
| 1887 | 44 | #322 | — | — |
| 1886 | 46 | #307 | — | — |
| 1885 | 45 | #296 | — | — |
| 1884 | 50 | #275 | — | — |
| 1883 | 33 | #306 | — | — |
| 1882 | 38 | #287 | — | — |
| 1881 | 29 | #293 | — | — |
| 1880 | 31 | #278 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).