Belah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Belah by the numbers
Belah was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Belah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Belah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Belaswallowed or consumed8 in England and Wales (2025)
- Beulahmarried, claimed as a wife6 in England and Wales (2025)
- Bulaha variant spelling of beulah, married or possessed
- Bellah27 in the US (2017)
- Bellabeautiful; a diminutive of Isabella4,616 in the US (2017)
- Belenbethlehem; derived from place name367 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Belah
Names that are said the same way as Belah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Belah
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