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Belle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 247 in 2025. Its best rank was #90 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #90 in 1880; #1,013 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Belle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,013 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #90.
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Belle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 247 girls in 2025. Peak: #90 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 407 (1915).
In 2025, 247 US girls were named Belle, making it the 1,013th most common girls’ name of the year, down 8 places from #1,005 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 255 girls named Belle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #90, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 407, in 1915. For comparison, it was #1,050 in 2015 and #1,476 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Belle in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 238 babies with the name. In all, 19,227 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 2,901 babies named Belle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,773 US girls were named Belle; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 339. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,507 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Belle ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #618 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bella (83,766 babies since 1880), Bell (2,626 babies since 1880) and Bill (161,190 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Beale are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Beale (6).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 6 | #618 | #561 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #671 | #889 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #690 | #883 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #716 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #747 | #970 |
| California | 40 | #767 | #890 |
| Illinois | 11 | #811 | #1,185 |
| Arizona | 7 | #833 | #982 |
| New York | 19 | #835 | #973 |
| Michigan | 8 | #875 | #918 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #900 | #690 |
| Indiana | 6 | #935 | #968 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #999 | — |
| Florida | 14 | #1,065 | #804 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,157 | #1,075 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,363 | #1,476 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 247 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 2024 | 255 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 2023 | 250 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 2022 | 274 | #971 | — | — |
| 2021 | 241 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 2020 | 255 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 2019 | 307 | #874 | — | — |
| 2018 | 312 | #870 | — | — |
| 2017 | 339 | #806 | — | — |
| 2016 | 293 | #936 | — | — |
| 2015 | 251 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 2014 | 251 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 2013 | 190 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 2012 | 163 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 2011 | 144 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 2010 | 155 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 2009 | 136 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 2008 | 170 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 2007 | 144 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 2006 | 146 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,406 | — | — |
| 2004 | 147 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 2003 | 107 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 2002 | 113 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 2001 | 108 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 2000 | 74 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,203 | — | — |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,227 | — | — |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,884 | — | — |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,227 | — | — |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,073 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,422 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,503 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,116 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,507 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,954 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,667 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,018 | — | — |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,238 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,129 | — | — |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,735 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,285 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,945 | — | — |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,675 | — | — |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,699 | — | — |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,448 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,923 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,161 | — | — |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,220 | — | — |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,650 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,407 | — | — |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,801 | — | — |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,037 | — | — |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,066 | — | — |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,217 | — | — |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,947 | — | — |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,073 | — | — |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,256 | — | — |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,972 | — | — |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 1954 | 43 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1953 | 48 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1952 | 45 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1951 | 50 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1949 | 56 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1948 | 47 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1945 | 40 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1942 | 45 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1941 | 45 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1938 | 44 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1937 | 46 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1936 | 42 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1935 | 47 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1934 | 50 | #975 | — | — |
| 1933 | 55 | #916 | — | — |
| 1932 | 68 | #830 | — | — |
| 1931 | 62 | #871 | — | — |
| 1930 | 82 | #775 | — | — |
| 1929 | 96 | #716 | — | — |
| 1928 | 93 | #736 | — | — |
| 1927 | 120 | #657 | — | — |
| 1926 | 116 | #673 | — | — |
| 1925 | 140 | #619 | — | — |
| 1924 | 162 | #574 | — | — |
| 1923 | 177 | #533 | — | — |
| 1922 | 187 | #510 | — | — |
| 1921 | 219 | #464 | — | — |
| 1920 | 235 | #436 | — | — |
| 1919 | 252 | #408 | — | — |
| 1918 | 285 | #387 | — | — |
| 1917 | 314 | #352 | — | — |
| 1916 | 334 | #335 | — | — |
| 1915 | 407 | #288 | — | — |
| 1914 | 353 | #276 | — | — |
| 1913 | 273 | #287 | — | — |
| 1912 | 279 | #267 | — | — |
| 1911 | 211 | #267 | — | — |
| 1910 | 193 | #281 | — | — |
| 1909 | 201 | #251 | — | — |
| 1908 | 187 | #255 | — | — |
| 1907 | 196 | #239 | — | — |
| 1906 | 191 | #229 | — | — |
| 1905 | 205 | #216 | — | — |
| 1904 | 205 | #211 | — | — |
| 1903 | 200 | #210 | — | — |
| 1902 | 212 | #201 | — | — |
| 1901 | 208 | #197 | — | — |
| 1900 | 291 | #181 | — | — |
| 1899 | 180 | #207 | — | — |
| 1898 | 257 | #183 | — | — |
| 1897 | 212 | #186 | — | — |
| 1896 | 238 | #176 | — | — |
| 1895 | 283 | #155 | — | — |
| 1894 | 249 | #164 | — | — |
| 1893 | 284 | #145 | — | — |
| 1892 | 265 | #150 | — | — |
| 1891 | 240 | #145 | — | — |
| 1890 | 304 | #127 | — | — |
| 1889 | 265 | #135 | — | — |
| 1888 | 317 | #115 | — | — |
| 1887 | 272 | #111 | — | — |
| 1886 | 270 | #115 | — | — |
| 1885 | 255 | #108 | — | — |
| 1884 | 286 | #100 | — | — |
| 1883 | 262 | #98 | — | — |
| 1882 | 264 | #98 | — | — |
| 1881 | 219 | #97 | — | — |
| 1880 | 238 | #90 | — | — |
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).