Bellah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 27 babies a year in the US.
Bellah by the numbers
Bellah was given to 27 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 42 babies in 2012, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Bellah
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 Bellah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Bellabeautiful; a diminutive of Isabella4,616 in the US (2017)
- Beulahmarried, claimed as a wife6 in England and Wales (2025)
- Belah6 in the US (2017)
- Bellamybeautiful friend; from bel ami381 in the US (2017)
- Bellebeautiful105 in England and Wales (2025)
- Beilahouse of god; variant of Beulah or Leila5 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Bellah
Names that are said the same way as Bellah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Bellah
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