girls:
8k births since 1881
#1828 (68th percentile)
overall:
8k births since 1881
#3031 (61st percentile)
The name Belva is the #3,031 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,955 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 60.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,828 (68.0% percentile) for all time with 7,955 births since 1881.
Belva first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (first recorded for girls in 1881). Birth data for Belva is available in 107 out of the 127 years between 1881 and 2007. 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, Belva reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 28.3% percentile (ranked #411) with 157 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 480 births per million (ranked 25.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Belva".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Belva. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Belva is pronounced as BEHL-vuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BAYL-vuh, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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