Bėll
surname · Latin script
Bėll is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 220,599 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. In Gabon it is the 35th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- DMDominica1 in 1.8K
- GDGrenada1 in 2.6K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
220,599 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bell in US United States, GA Gabon.
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)- Middle Englishbelle(measured from records)
- Old Englishbelle“bell”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*bellǭ(measured from records)
From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel, Dutch bel, Low German Belle, Bel, Danish bjelde, Swedish bjällra, Norwegian bjelle, Icelandic bjalla.
Cited for this meaning 8
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- Scottish Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bėll is found
(measured from records)Bėll 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 220,599 | 1 in 1.5K | 267K | Bell | 174 |
| ES Spain | — | 777 | 1 in 64K | 777 | — | 13 |
| BR Brazil | — | 763 | 1 in 277K | 763 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 618 | 1 in 8.8K | 618 | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | — | 573 | 1 in 79K | 573 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 129 | 1 in 5.8K | 129 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | — | 43 | 1 in 2.6K | 43 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | — | 41 | 1 in 1.8K | 41 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 8 | 1 in 6.7K | 8 | — | — |
| GA Gabon | #35 | — | — | — | Bell | 16 |
220,599 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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 Bėll mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and Scottish Surnames and 6 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bėll?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 221 thousand people named Bėll, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bell. After it come Spain, Brazil, Norway and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bėll most common?
- Bėll is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bėll?
- In the United States, the national register counted 220,599 people named Bėll in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Bėll compared with other names?
- In Gabon, Bėll is the 35th most common surname of 6,042 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C4%97llThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Bėll” — ranked 67th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.