girls:
483 births since 2003
#5233 (8th percentile)
overall:
483 births since 2003
#7256 (6th percentile)
The name Bellah is the #7,256 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 483 recorded births since 2003. This represents the 6.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,233 (8.4% percentile) for all time with 483 births since 2003.
Bellah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2003 (first recorded for girls in 2003).
For girls, Bellah reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #900) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.0% percentile). Despite a low point in 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Bellah ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 18.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bellah".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Bellah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Bellah is pronounced as BEH-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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