Bella

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Isabella [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

2) Pet form of Bergljot (see Bergljót) [5]

3) Latin and Italian bella = 'beautiful' [1] [2] [4] [5] [7]

4) Pet form of Berit [5]

5) Short form of Mirabella [8]

6) Short form of Belinda [8]

7) Short form of Amabel [8]

8) Pet form of Elisabeth [3]

9) Pet form of Barbara [3]

10) Short form of Arabella [8]

Related Names

Bell
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Bella
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Belle
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Bellis
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Danish Swedish

See also Bela

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Belluson Iceland

Female

Belludóttir Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see BEL (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Bella
Genitive: Bellas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Bella
Genitive: Bellan
Partitive: Bellaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Bella
Accusative: Bellu
Dative: Bellu
Genitive: Bellu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Bella
Genitive: Bellas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Bella
Genitive: Bellas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 39 people were named Bella (percentage of first or only given name: 51 %) [11]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[12]
1787 2390 1785 2386 2 4
Denmark Denmark[13]
595
n.a.
595
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
679
n.a.
679 0 0
Greenland Greenland[15]
34 216
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
10 27
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
281
n.a.
281
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Bella (f) Sources: [12][13][17][14]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2024).
  9. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no