Belen

What Belen means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Belen yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 345 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Belen?

US: Rising: up from #927 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 431 girls got the name (#671 that year). First in the US records in 1909.

How common

• About 1 in 4,659 baby girls in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in OR (0.61 per 1,000 girls), AZ (0.6 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.6 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Belen is #785 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Belen were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Baylen51 US
• Bilan6 US · 8 E&W
• Baelyn14 US
• Bilen0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Belen

Girls

• Kaia#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #447 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Alani#161Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #529 in 2015, #161 in 2025
• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records
• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Ailani#168Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,199 in 2015, #168 in 2025
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025

For a brother

• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Malakai#213Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #491 in 2015, #213 in 2025
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Belen’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.