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Belen

#785 in 2025Girls' name

Beautiful, through Belinda

Belen has been given to 12,366 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #785 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 431 recorded.

Babies named Belen, 2025

1 in 9,610

Belen over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Belen: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful, through Belinda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Belen means

Belen belongs to the name family reached through Belen → Belinda → Belinda. Its meaning is “beautiful”.

Origin, language, and formation

Belen is used in Cebuano.

Belen comes through Spanish Belen.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Belinda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,287 girls were recorded with the name Belen between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 431 in 2024; its best national rank was #671 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #881 in 2020 to #785 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #927 in 2015 to #785 in 2025.

In the United States, 79 boys were recorded with the name Belen between 1982 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1982; its best national rank was #4,636 in 1982.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Belen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,610
345 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,660
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#785
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Belen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Belen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Belens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Belen was born before 2007 — so the typical Belen is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,446
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (3,108).

Is Belen 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
−114
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+96
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+142
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.0%
Peak was 2024 (431)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#671
2024

Spellings of Belen

Belen is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 56.5% against Belen's 0.68%.

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 Belen is used

Across 2016–2025, Belen was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 1,961 girls, against 1 in 4,035 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

251 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 1,961
  2. 2California1 in 2,041
  3. 3Texas1 in 2,778
  4. 4Arizona1 in 3,030
  5. 5Nevada1 in 3,125
  6. 6Virginia1 in 3,226
  7. 7Florida1 in 3,333
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 3,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Geographically, Belen is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 88% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Belen around the world

Where Belen 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 & Wales
    1997–2021
    #4,634
    in 2021
  • France
    1966–2025
    #3,394
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2001
    #711
    in 2001

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.

Belen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#785
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 96
Best rank ever
#671
2024
Peak year
2024
431 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,287
Count in 2025
345

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,636
1982
Peak year
1982
8 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
79
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Belen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BelvaBelleBellaBellHellenKaylenBellamyMarlenJaylenBeliaBelindaKalenAylenBelaJoellenHalenBellahArlenRylenBelkisAilenBelmaKylenKellen

Names with a curve like Belen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Belen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RaynaKennaAlizaAlenaMariamChayaReinaAliaGiovannaHanaAmarisSamira

Sibling names for Belen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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