How popular is “Bella” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bella” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bella” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Bella” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Bella” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Bella” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Bella” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bella” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	13	0.000064521	13		100%
1881	24	0.000124554	24		100%
1882	16	0.000072224	16		100%
1883	17	0.000078361	17		100%
1884	31	0.00012733	31		100%
1885	25	0.000103797	25		100%
1886	22	0.000086168	22		100%
1887	26	0.000105096	26		100%
1888	31	0.000103515	31		100%
1889	37	0.000128052	37		100%
1890	42	0.000139349	42		100%
1891	37	0.000129067	37		100%
1892	53	0.000158505	53		100%
1893	46	0.000141441	46		100%
1894	35	0.000103339	35		100%
1895	39	0.000111105	39		100%
1896	43	0.000120285	43		100%
1897	44	0.000126817	44		100%
1898	39	0.00010224	39		100%
1899	53	0.000156234	53		100%
1900	73	0.000162129	73		100%
1901	36	0.000104103	36		100%
1902	53	0.000137045	53		100%
1903	44	0.000115425	44		100%
1904	43	0.000106571	43		100%
1905	52	0.000122664	52		100%
1906	54	0.000126035	54		100%
1907	60	0.000128924	60		100%
1908	65	0.00013302	65		100%
1909	75	0.000146707	75		100%
1910	73	0.00012358	73		100%
1911	82	0.000127274	82		100%
1912	113	0.000114365	113		100%
1913	125	0.000109928	125		100%
1914	152	0.000107319	152		100%
1915	160	0.000087316	160		100%
1916	207	0.000107009	207		100%
1917	215	0.000107138	215		100%
1918	238	0.000109621	238		100%
1919	211	0.000099988	211		100%
1920	188	0.000083089	188		100%
1921	192	0.000082244	192		100%
1922	178	0.000077758	178		100%
1923	172	0.000074702	172		100%
1924	134	0.000056264	134		100%
1925	133	0.000057001	133		100%
1926	106	0.000046169	106		100%
1927	90	0.000038804	90		100%
1928	73	0.000032287	73		100%
1929	83	0.000037862	83		100%
1930	64	0.000028786	64		100%
1931	50	0.00002376	50		100%
1932	47	0.000022261	47		100%
1933	37	0.000018505	37		100%
1934	45	0.000021668	45		100%
1935	28	0.000013398	28		100%
1936	29	0.000013959	29		100%
1937	19	0.000008917	19		100%
1938	19	0.000008587	19		100%
1939	25	0.000011346	25		100%
1940	19	0.000008251	19		100%
1941	27	0.000011082	27		100%
1942	22	0.000008053	22		100%
1943	16	0.000005669	16		100%
1944	16	0.000005948	16		100%
1945	13	0.0000049	13		100%
1946	23	0.000007198	23		100%
1947	43	0.000011937	43		100%
1948	26	0.000007531	26		100%
1949	30	0.000008609	30		100%
1950	21	0.000005994	21		100%
1951	29	0.000007872	29		100%
1952	36	0.000009479	36		100%
1953	43	0.000011158	43		100%
1954	28	0.000007034	28		100%
1955	41	0.000010212	41		100%
1956	25	0.000006063	25		100%
1957	24	0.000005711	24		100%
1958	34	0.000008225	34		100%
1959	24	0.000005772	24		100%
1960	30	0.000007222	30		100%
1961	22	0.000005311	22		100%
1962	24	0.000005947	24		100%
1963	22	0.000005558	22		100%
1964	21	0.000005402	21		100%
1965	34	0.000009378	34		100%
1966	16	0.000004603	16		100%
1967	16	0.000004713	16		100%
1968	24	0.000007104	24		100%
1969	18	0.000005179	18		100%
1970	32	0.000008873	32		100%
1971	21	0.000006118	21		100%
1972	19	0.000006045	19		100%
1973	28	0.000009281	28		100%
1974	19	0.00000625	19		100%
1975	29	0.000009605	29		100%
1976	18	0.000005932	18		100%
1977	26	0.000008185	26		100%
1978	19	0.000005986	19		100%
1979	25	0.000007514	25		100%
1980	17	0.000004935	17		100%
1981	19	0.000005492	19		100%
1982	22	0.000006271	22		100%
1983	22	0.000006352	22		100%
1984	19	0.000005446	19		100%
1985	23	0.000006444	23		100%
1986	16	0.000004498	16		100%
1987	19	0.00000527	19		100%
1988	20	0.000005413	20		100%
1989	17	0.000004422	17		100%
1990	28	0.000007084	28		100%
1991	47	0.000012066	47		100%
1992	39	0.000010153	39		100%
1993	49	0.000012996	49		100%
1994	76	0.000020443	76		100%
1995	107	0.000029218	107		100%
1996	72	0.000019741	72		100%
1997	95	0.000026201	95		100%
1998	156	0.000042412	156		100%
1999	185	0.000050083	185		100%
2000	307	0.000081219	307		100%
2001	413	0.000110328	413		100%
2002	683	0.000182704	683		100%
2003	974	0.000256159	974		100%
2004	1240	0.000324529	1240		100%
2005	1664	0.000432787	1664		100%
2006	1959	0.000495174	1959		100%
2007	2260	0.000565327	2260		100%
2008	2794	0.000710821	2789	5	100%
2009	4544	0.001189474	4539	5	100%
2010	5143	0.001391603	5135	8	100%
2011	4287	0.001172019	4278	9	100%
2012	4361	0.001192388	4361		100%
2013	4189	0.001149035	4189		100%
2014	4109	0.00110863	4102	7	100%
2015	3812	0.001030016	3812		100%
2016	3681	0.001003353	3681		100%
2017	4670	0.001305857	4664	6	100%
2018	4573	0.001300664	4573		100%
2019	4401	0.001267959	4396	5	100%
2020	3645	0.001091129	3645		100%
2021	3366	0.000993521	3366		100%
2022	2912	0.00086074	2912		100%
2023	2559	0.000772833	2559		100%
2024	2469	0.000741775	2469		100%

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