Bell
Bell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 275th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 190063 births
- Best rank
- #275in 1884
- Since 1880
- 2,618people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,488 girls have been named Bell in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1900, with 63 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 63 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1906, and the 1890s alone account for 21%. It has spent 35 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 130 boys have also been given it, 5.0% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Bell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 416 | |
| 1890s | 511 | |
| 1900s | 418 | |
| 1910s | 450 | |
| 1920s | 290 | |
| 1930s | 125 | |
| 1940s | 84 | |
| 1950s | 46 | |
| 1960s | 18 | |
| 1970s | 11 | |
| 2000s | 20 | |
| 2010s | 64 | |
| 2020s | 35 |
In 1900, its biggest year
Bell was the 423rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1900 were Mary, Helen, Anna, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1900.
Names that rose and fell with Bell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Augustapeak 1915
- Effiepeak 1919
- Maypeak 1919
- Hettiepeak 1916
- Minniepeak 1916
- Ettiepeak 1891
- Maymepeak 1915
- Myrtiepeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.