Bêla
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular past historic of bêler
Bêla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary1 in 225(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 22K
- HRCroatia1 in 30K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 225 (inferred from the name graph)
43,353 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bela in BR Brazil, SI Slovenia and Béla in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)third-person singular past historic of bêler
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bêla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
43,353 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bêla mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular past historic of bêler Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bêla have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Bêla, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bêla most common?
- Bêla is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 225 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bêla?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 43,353 people named Bêla in 2025, about 1 in 225 residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bêla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.