girls:
18.7k births since 1880
#1080 (81st percentile)
overall:
18.7k births since 1880
#1880 (76th percentile)
The name Belle is the #1,880 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,721 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,080 (81.1% percentile) for all time with 18,721 births since 1880.
Belle has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For girls, Belle reached its peak popularity in 1888, achieving the 62.2% percentile (ranked #108) with 1,673 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 2,438 births per million (ranked 59.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Belle ranks #706 for girls (25.5% percentile) with 142 births per million, which is 5.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Belle".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Belle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Belle is pronounced as behl, which has 1 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like B EH1 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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