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Girl's nameOrigin: internationalIn Israel: rising

BellaIn Hebrew: בלה · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: בֵּלָהRomanization: béla

Bella (Hebrew: בלה) is a girl's name of international origin. 5,178 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 27 girls and ranked #417. Its peak year was 1949, with 239 babies.

People in Israel
5,178
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
27
rank #417
Peak year
1949
239 babies
USA, 2025
2,129
rank #136

Writing and saying Bella

In Hebrew letters the name is בלה, read right to left. Bella is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "béla" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a female given name, equivalent to English Bella

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Bella by year: Israel and abroad

How many girls out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Bella: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Bella in English-speaking countries

Bella in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States20252,129#1362010 (5,136)
United Kingdom2025567#902014 (1,250)
England and Wales2025515#912014 (1,141)
Scotland202541#1112019 (76)
Northern Ireland202511#1612019 (54)
Ireland202542#1112021 (81)
British Columbia202321#1432009 (45)
Alberta202526#1602009 (50)
Quebec20259#5002010 (37)

Counts for girls. The Hebrew page for Bella has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Bella

How do you write Bella in Hebrew?

Bella is written בלה in Hebrew (with vowel points: בֵּלָה). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "béla".

How many people in Israel are named Bella?

5,178 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name בלה: 5,165 women and 13 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Bella a boy's or a girl's name?

In Israel it is almost always a girl's name: 99.7% of the people named בלה are women.

What does the name Bella mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a female given name, equivalent to English Bella"

Is Bella used outside Israel?

The name Bella appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 2,129 girls were given it in 2025 (#136), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 567 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.