Belal
#7,253 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Belal has been given to 708 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #7,253 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 28 recorded.
Babies named Belal, 2025
1 in 301,000
Belal over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Belal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,253
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Belal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Belal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Belals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Belal was born before 2003 — so the typical Belal is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 27.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 57.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 708
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 27.1% of all recorded uses (192).
Is Belal rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −1,028
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +324
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,939
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.65×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 39.3%
- Peak was 2003 (28)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.6% average annual change
Spellings of Belal
Belal is not the most common spelling — Bill is, with 51.0% against Belal's 0.23%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Belal is used
Across 1910–2025, Belal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 767,839 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3Michigan1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Belal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Belal around the world
Where Belal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2025#3,684in 2025
- France1980–2022#6,617in 2022
- Canada1993–2023#3,103in 2023
- South Australia1979–1996#540in 1996
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Belal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Belal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Belal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.