Bell
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 1993 at #8,700
Given to girls 95.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1884 · 50 births
- Debut · girls
- 31 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,496since 1880
Bell over time
Rank among girls' names. Bell has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | — | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | — | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | — | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 | — | |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | — | |
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | — | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | — | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | — | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | — | |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | — | |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | — | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | — | |
| 2007 | — | — | ||
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | — | |
| 2005 | — | — | ||
| 2004 | — | — | ||
| 2003 | — | — | ||
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | — | — | ||
| 2000 | — | — | ||
| 1999 | — | — | ||
| 1998 | — | — | ||
| 1997 | — | — | ||
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | — | — | ||
| 1994 | — | — | ||
| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | — | ||
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| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 | — | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | — | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | — | |
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,416 | 14 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,532 | 12 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,297 | 13 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,417 | 12 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,113 | 15 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,940 | 9 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,950 | 16 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,431 | 7 | #3,645 | 5 |
| 1934 | #2,087 | 15 | — | |
| 1933 | #3,406 | 7 | — | |
| 1932 | #2,490 | 12 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | #2,750 | 10 | — | |
| 1930 | #1,703 | 22 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,011 | 17 | #2,980 | 8 |
| 1928 | #1,897 | 20 | #2,843 | 9 |
| 1927 | #1,885 | 21 | #3,780 | 6 |
| 1926 | #1,541 | 28 | #3,708 | 6 |
| 1925 | #1,376 | 34 | — | |
| 1924 | #1,440 | 33 | — | |
| 1923 | #1,464 | 31 | — | |
| 1922 | #1,575 | 28 | #2,801 | 10 |
| 1921 | #1,298 | 36 | #4,322 | 5 |
| 1920 | #1,171 | 42 | #3,815 | 6 |
| 1919 | #1,026 | 49 | #4,168 | 5 |
| 1918 | #1,018 | 50 | #3,728 | 6 |
| 1917 | #1,307 | 31 | #3,981 | 5 |
| 1916 | #1,005 | 47 | — | |
| 1915 | #968 | 47 | #2,070 | 13 |
| 1914 | #1,003 | 35 | #2,915 | 6 |
| 1913 | #830 | 40 | #2,273 | 7 |
| 1912 | #659 | 58 | — | |
| 1911 | #659 | 43 | — | |
| 1910 | #584 | 50 | — | |
| 1909 | #747 | 29 | — | |
| 1908 | #698 | 31 | — | |
| 1907 | #649 | 33 | #1,345 | 5 |
| 1906 | #555 | 40 | — | |
| 1905 | #506 | 45 | #919 | 8 |
| 1904 | #576 | 34 | — | |
| 1903 | #461 | 48 | — | |
| 1902 | #478 | 43 | — | |
| 1901 | #414 | 52 | — | |
| 1900 | #423 | 63 | — | |
| 1899 | #402 | 52 | — | |
| 1898 | #405 | 58 | — | |
| 1897 | #440 | 44 | — | |
| 1896 | #396 | 51 | — | |
| 1895 | #417 | 46 | — | |
| 1894 | #422 | 43 | — | |
| 1893 | #414 | 42 | — | |
| 1892 | #343 | 59 | — | |
| 1891 | #340 | 55 | — | |
| 1890 | #324 | 61 | — | |
| 1889 | #334 | 55 | — | |
| 1888 | #356 | 45 | — | |
| 1887 | #322 | 44 | — | |
| 1886 | #305 | 46 | — | |
| 1885 | #296 | 45 | — | |
| 1884 | #275 | 50 | — | |
| 1883 | #306 | 33 | — | |
| 1882 | #287 | 38 | — | |
| 1881 | #290 | 29 | — | |
| 1880 | #278 | 31 | — | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Bell was already there! It came in at #278, and was given to 31 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1950, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Bell is popular in 1891
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Bell
- 2,560 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #10,917)
- 1,225 spots since 2020 (#12,142 → #10,917)
- 2,089 spots since 2015 (#13,006 → #10,917)
- Biggest jump: 163 spots in 1910 (#747 → #584)
- Biggest drop: 173 spots in 1914 (#830 → #1,003)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1884 at #275 (50 births)
- Births halved by 1927, 43 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1880–1913
- Highest: 1 in 2,580 girls born in 1884 were named Bell (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 20.5% of all girls named Bell (511) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 416 | #275 (1884) | #305 |
| 1890s | 511 | #324 (1890) | #390 |
| 1900s | 418 | #414 (1901) | #551 |
| 1910s | 450 | #584 (1910) | #906 |
| 1920s | 290 | #1,171 (1920) | #1,566 |
| 1930s | 125 | #1,703 (1930) | #2,529 |
| 1940s | 84 | #2,297 (1940) | #3,746 |
| 1950s | 46 | #4,123 (1952) | #4,989 |
| 1960s | 18 | #5,309 (1961) | #5,936 |
| 1970s | 11 | #7,070 (1970) | #7,747 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 20 | #12,429 (2009) | #14,513 |
| 2010s | 64 | #7,762 (2018) | #12,773 |
| 2020s | 43 | #10,917 (2025) | #12,028 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bell in 1891
Top girls' names in 1891
More about 1891
girls
185,482 girls got a published name in 1891; 1 in 3,372 of them was named Bell, which outranked 77.8% of the 1,533 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.