girls:
640 births since 1895
#5076 (11th percentile)
overall:
640 births since 1895
#7099 (8th percentile)
The name Belma is the #7,099 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 640 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 8.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,076 (11.2% percentile) for all time with 640 births since 1895.
Belma first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (first recorded for girls in 1895). Birth data for Belma is available in 74 out of the 127 years between 1895 and 2021. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Belma reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #577) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 20 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Belma".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Belma is pronounced as BEHL-muh, which has 2 syllables.
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