Belal
- #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · boys
- 1990 · 24 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 708since 1977
Belal over time
Rank among boys' names. Belal has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | #4,936 | 19 |
| 2020 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | #5,035 | 18 |
| 2011 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #4,520 | 20 |
| 2005 | #4,062 | 22 |
| 2004 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #3,280 | 28 |
| 2002 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #4,204 | 18 |
| 1999 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #3,708 | 19 |
| 1997 | #3,455 | 20 |
| 1996 | #3,021 | 24 |
| 1995 | #3,100 | 22 |
| 1994 | #4,094 | 15 |
| 1993 | #3,246 | 20 |
| 1992 | #3,748 | 16 |
| 1991 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #2,695 | 24 |
| 1989 | #3,446 | 16 |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
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| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Belal! It came in at #5,845, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1978, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Belal is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
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- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,574 · 1 in 35,010
Best ever in a state: #718 in Michigan, 1997.
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| Texas | #2,574 | 5 | 1 in 35,010 |
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See more about Belal
- 995 spots since 2024 (#6,199 → #7,194)
- 308 spots since 2020 (#7,502 → #7,194)
- 1,905 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #7,194)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1990 at #2,695 (24 births)
- Births halved by 1991, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 70,548 boys born in 2003 were named Belal (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,695 in 1990, was only 1 in 85,585 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.1% of all boys named Belal (192) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 12 | #4,842 (1979) | #5,344 |
| 1980s | 86 | #3,446 (1989) | #4,813 |
| 1990s | 184 | #2,695 (1990) | #3,693 |
| 2000s | 192 | #3,280 (2003) | #4,550 |
| 2010s | 156 | #4,624 (2016) | #5,777 |
| 2020s | 78 | #4,936 (2021) | #6,593 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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