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    The surname Bellas

    An English place surname, carried by 890 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B420

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bellas is more common than 83.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Topographic surname for someone who lived near a belltower, from Middle English belle (“bell”) + hous (“house”).

    Bellas is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 890 people named Bellas in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 346,905 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 895.

    #27,185
    rank among US surnames
    890
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.6%
    change since 2000 (was #25,825)

    Who is named Bellas

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    86% of people named Bellas identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bellas

    Bellas has the Soundex code B420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B420.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bellas come from?
    Topographic surname for someone who lived near a belltower, from Middle English belle (“bell”) + hous (“house”).
    How common is the surname Bellas?
    890 people in the United States had the surname Bellas in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 346,905 Americans. It ranked 27,185th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bellas?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Bellas identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Bellas?
    Bellas is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bellas getting more or less common?
    Less common. 895 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 890 in 2010, down 0.6%.