Bellamy
#797 for girls in 2025, 341 births · #721 for boys in 2025, 374 births
Given to girls 55.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 408 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,745since 1993
Bellamy over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #797 | 341 | #721 | 374 |
| 2024 | #860 | 314 | #687 | 395 |
| 2023 | #832 | 330 | #750 | 348 |
| 2022 | #718 | 408 | #629 | 442 |
| 2021 | #764 | 373 | #621 | 447 |
| 2020 | #797 | 341 | #734 | 335 |
| 2019 | #1,016 | 253 | #834 | 270 |
| 2018 | #960 | 275 | #1,086 | 182 |
| 2017 | #1,036 | 249 | #1,332 | 135 |
| 2016 | #1,098 | 234 | #2,305 | 57 |
| 2015 | #1,293 | 186 | #4,179 | 24 |
| 2014 | #1,876 | 107 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #3,166 | 51 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,132 | 53 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,360 | 48 | — | |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 | — | |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | — | |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 | — | |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | — | |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | — | |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bellamy! It came in at #13,442, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1993–2002, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Bellamy is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- West Virginia#275 · 1 in 912
- Oklahoma#394 · 1 in 1,487
- Arkansas#495 · 1 in 1,813
- Kentucky#564 · 1 in 2,431
- Washington#592 · 1 in 2,683
Best ever in a state: #263 in West Virginia, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| West Virginia | #275 | 6 | 1 in 912 |
| Oklahoma | #394 | 10 | 1 in 1,487 |
| Arkansas | #495 | 6 | 1 in 1,813 |
| Kentucky | #564 | 7 | 1 in 2,431 |
| Washington | #592 | 11 | 1 in 2,683 |
| Georgia | #595 | 17 | 1 in 2,664 |
| South Carolina | #609 | 7 | 1 in 2,532 |
| Tennessee | #633 | 11 | 1 in 2,838 |
| Maryland | #638 | 8 | 1 in 2,765 |
| California | #643 | 53 | 1 in 3,293 |
| North Carolina | #645 | 15 | 1 in 3,005 |
| Missouri | #675 | 8 | 1 in 3,091 |
| Florida | #684 | 24 | 1 in 3,483 |
| Indiana | #688 | 9 | 1 in 3,154 |
| Ohio | #690 | 14 | 1 in 3,472 |
| Utah | #711 | 5 | 1 in 3,385 |
| Alabama | #734 | 6 | 1 in 3,179 |
| Pennsylvania | #744 | 13 | 1 in 3,753 |
| Arizona | #746 | 8 | 1 in 3,467 |
| Illinois | #746 | 13 | 1 in 3,723 |
| Texas | #792 | 38 | 1 in 4,092 |
| Minnesota | #859 | 5 | 1 in 4,456 |
| Colorado | #877 | 5 | 1 in 4,426 |
| Virginia | #960 | 7 | 1 in 4,940 |
| Michigan | #961 | 7 | 1 in 5,476 |
| New Jersey | #1,046 | 6 | 1 in 6,071 |
| New York | #1,318 | 10 | 1 in 8,125 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bellamy
- 63 spots since 2024 (#860 → #797)
- Same as 2020 (#797)
- 496 spots since 2015 (#1,293 → #797)
- Biggest jump: 219 spots in 2020 (#1,016 → #797)
- Biggest drop: 114 spots in 2023 (#718 → #832)
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 2022 at #718 (408 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2020–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,020 girls born in 2022 were named Bellamy (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,713 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 56.3% of all girls named Bellamy (2,107) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2020, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1990s | 10 | #13,442 (1993) | #13,480 |
| 2000s | 121 | #5,235 (2003) | #7,285 |
| 2010s | 1,507 | #960 (2018) | #2,015 |
| 2020s | 2,107 | #718 (2022) | #795 |
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.
Bellamy in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 4,399 of them was named Bellamy, which outranked 95.7% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 3,914 of them was named Bellamy, which outranked 95.6% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.