Girl · Hebrew, through Spanish
Belén
Say it: beh-LEN
Meaning
Spanish for Bethlehem, Hebrew Bet Leḥem 'house of bread'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Short for María de Belén; a popular name in Argentina and Chile in recent decades.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 10,524 babies given this name since 1909
- At its height in 2017, about 1 in 4,700 girls
- 300 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Belem
| Catalan | Betlem |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | Belém |
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Parish baptism registers
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.