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How popular is the name Belle?
Births per year, rank history and how many Belles are alive today.
Belle (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 396th in 2025 with 105 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2018, when 218 babies were given the name, the 229th most popular that year. It has declined since 2018; the 2025 figure is roughly 48% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. Common short forms of Belle include Bella. Belle is also a common short form of Arabella, so many people called Belle are registered under the longer name.
The Belle you are most likely to meet is around 9 years old. Half of all Belles born in England and Wales are between 6 and 14, and there are at least 2,900 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Belle - on average, only one in every 109 such rooms contains a Belle.
How many babies are named Belle each year?
Where does Belle rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Belle most popular?
Belle peaked in 2018, when 218 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Belle?
At least 2,900 people named Belle born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Belle?
Most living Belles are between 6 and 14; the most common age is about 9.
Is Belle becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2018 peak.