girls:
34 births since 2016
#5682 (1st percentile)
boys:
47 births since 2018
#4539 (1st percentile)
overall:
81 births since 2016
#7658 (1st percentile)
The name Bellemy is the #7,658 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 81 recorded births since 2016. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,539 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 47 births since 2018. For girls, it ranks #5,682 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 34 births since 2016.
Bellemy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2016 (2016 for girls and 2018 for boys).
The name Bellemy has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (58.0% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Bellemy were boys. Interestingly, until around 2020, the name was more popular for girls (55.2% girls from 2016 to 2019), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (65.4% boys from 2020 to 2023).
For boys, Bellemy reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #896) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Bellemy ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 80.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Bellemy reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #930) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bellemy".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bellemy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.6% confident that Bellemy is pronounced as BEH-luh-mee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEHL-mee, at 32.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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