Běla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: CZSO, 2019
/ˈbjɛla/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Běla is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Hungary.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)»1° vilice, viljuška, pirun, 2° (Srbija) ašov«
Cited for this meaning 5
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Nordic Names
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Běla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | — | 43K | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 4.6K | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 2.4K | — |
| US United States | — | 1.7K | — |
| PL Poland | — | 322 | — |
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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Běla is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In hsb, third-person plural present of bělić
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Běla Vrbová-Pavlouskováb. 1896CZCzech translator (1896-1978)
- Běla Friedländerováb. 1900CZCzech swimmer
- Bella Jurdováb. 1919CZnot in their usual nameCzech actress
- Běla Kolářováb. 1923CZCzech photographer and artist (1923-2010)
- Běla Čermákováb. 1925CZCzechoslovak painter
- Běla Tůmováb. 1929CZCzech naturalist and virologist
- Běla Kolčákováb. 1937CZCzechoslovak painter (born 1937)
- Běla Schovancováb. 1945CZCzech painter and illustrator
- Bela Bendlovab. 1962CZresearcher
- Běla Třebínováb. 1976CZCzech swimmer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2.4K | #349 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 1.2K | #392 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1.2K | #388 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2019 | — | #249 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2018 | — | #175 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2017 | — | #153 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Běla?
- In the etymology graph, Blanka and Baila are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Běla?
- In Czech /ˈbjɛla/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Běla a male or female name?
- Běla is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Běla have the most bearers?
- Běla is most frequently recorded in Hungary.
What do you want to know about Běla?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C4%9BlaThe 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, “Běla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.