# Bell (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bell/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /bɛl/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Bel |
| US babies named this | 2,626 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 130 / 2,496 (95% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | 12,615 |
| 2010 | 8 | 12,453 |
| 2011 | 6 | 15,124 |
| 2012 | 5 | 17,300 |
| 2013 | 5 | 16,956 |
| 2014 | 9 | 11,122 |
| 2015 | 7 | 13,216 |
| 2017 | 10 | 10,079 |
| 2018 | 14 | 7,818 |
| 2020 | 7 | 12,355 |
| 2021 | 7 | 12,417 |
| 2022 | 8 | 11,380 |
| 2023 | 7 | 12,363 |
| 2024 | 6 | 13,737 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,097 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 5 | 4,037 |
| 1918 | 6 | 3,766 |
| 1919 | 5 | 4,211 |
| 1920 | 6 | 3,860 |
| 1921 | 5 | 4,388 |
| 1922 | 10 | 2,819 |
| 1926 | 6 | 3,743 |
| 1927 | 6 | 3,815 |
| 1928 | 9 | 2,865 |
| 1929 | 8 | 3,007 |
| 1932 | 5 | 3,825 |
| 1935 | 5 | 3,691 |
| 1962 | 5 | 4,087 |
| 1991 | 5 | 8,335 |
| 1993 | 5 | 8,830 |

## People named Bell

- William Bell Scott, British artist (1811-1890)
- Anna Bell Peaks, American porn actress
- William Bell Walton, American politician (1871-1939)
- Ida B. Wells, American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.