Bela

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Bela: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Bela: Recorded since 2004, it reached #2,025 in 2011, and it stood at #2,411 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#2025highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2004–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#4598
2005	#3382
2007	#3218
2008	#3397
2009	#3422
2010	#2589
2011	#2025
2012	#2521
2013	#3536
2014	#2058
2015	#2496
2016	#2547
2017	#2502
2018	#3518
2020	#3447
2021	#3192
2022	#3970
2023	#4056
2024	#2411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 19 of the 21 years from 2004 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2004–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2004
First recorded at #4598 among girls in England and Wales in 2004 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2004–2024
Highest recorded position: #2025 among girls in England and Wales, in 2011 (recorded 2004–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Bela appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 2004, and has registered 147 births with the name.

Bela across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Bela's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#4598 (2004)	#2025 (2011)	#2411 (2024)	19 of 21	147 (2004–2024)	13 (2011)
England and Wales · Boys	#4805 (2012)	#3004 (2015)	#4789 (2021)	3 of 10	12 (2012–2021)	6 (2015)

Bela by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Bela in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	26	5 of 10	5
2010sbusiest	87	9 of 10	10
2020s	34	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Bela appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2025 in England and Wales in 2011.

Bela's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2411	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2496	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2521	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2025	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2004 and 2024, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,025, first reached in 2011.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
12 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years10 to 19 unbroken years →
3separate stretches the record falls into3 separate stretches →
1 yearlongest absence inside the recorded periodA single year missing →
#2,411position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
13births registered in its largest year, 2011Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Begw · #2925, 16y
Beibhinn · #229, 30y
Belal · #1578, 27y
Belinda · #6, 65y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Anashe · #2025, 16y
Haifa · #2025, 21y
Sheindy · #2025, 23y
A'isha · #2023, 20y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Anashe · #2025, 16y
Haifa · #2025, 21y
Sheindy · #2025, 23y
Gaspard · #2027, 16y

Bela and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Bela without appearing here.

Bela moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Kristine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3422 and #3031 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2589 and #5707.
Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3536 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2058 and #4684.

Moved ahead of Bela

Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2502 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #1711.
Rory Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2502 and #2706 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #1977.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2058 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2496 and #1240.
Arlo Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2502 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #2340.

Moved the opposite way to Bela

Abigail Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bela went from #4598 to #2411 while Abigail went from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bela went from #4598 to #2411 while Aimee went from #47 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bela went from #4598 to #2411 while Aisling went from #866 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bela went from #4598 to #2411 while Alex went from #199 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Bela

Ada Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bela went from #4598 to #2411 and Ada from #1617 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bela went from #4598 to #2411 and Alma from #1535 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bela went from #4598 to #2411 and Amelia from #18 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bela went from #4598 to #2411 and Aria from #1715 to #35.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2025 in England and Wales in 2011. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bela

Bela at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bela across 2 official records

Bela by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bela appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Bela and the names beside it

Bela moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bela

Moved the opposite way to Bela

Moved the same way as Bela

Bela at a glance

Bela across 2 official records

Bela by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bela appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Bela and the names beside it

Bela moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bela

Moved the opposite way to Bela

Moved the same way as Bela