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Belia

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Belia has been given to 2,058 babies in the U.S. since 1909. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1931, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Belia, 2023

1 in 552,000

Belia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Belia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Belia means

Belia is a given name.

The naming story behind Belia

Wikidata records Belia as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q21142028, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,058 girls were recorded with the name Belia between 1909 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 51 in 1931; its best national rank was #974 in 1931.

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.

How common is Belia?

Belia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Belia 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 2023 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Belia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Belias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Belia was born before 1951 — so the typical Belia is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
17.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,065
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1930s — 17.5% of all recorded uses (360).

Is Belia 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1931 (51)
Years since peak
94
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#974
1931

Spellings of Belia

Belia is not the most common spelling — Julia is, with 18.5% against Belia's 0.08%.

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 Belia is used

Across 1910–2025, Belia was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 20,721 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 10,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 100,000

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. Belia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Belia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#974
1931
Peak year
1931
51 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,058
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Belia

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

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Names with a curve like Belia

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

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Sibling names for Belia

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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