Bellamy
Pronounced B EH1 L AH0 M IY0 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 2022
- 32 years in use
- 1 spelling
How popular is Bellamy?
Bellamy is a girls' name, and first appears in 1993. It has been given to 6,046 children — the 2,614th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about seven times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2022, when 408 children were given it.
Bellomy is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Bellamy and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Bellomy
Characteristics
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- B EH1 L AH0 M IY0
- Stress pattern:
- 100
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Bellamy
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Bellamy
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Bellamy?
- Bellamy ranks 2,614th among girls' names in US records, with 6,046 births since 1993. Over the past decade it accounts for 2,960.
- Is Bellamy a unisex name?
- No. Bellamy is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Bellamy most popular?
- 2022, when 408 children were given the name. It has been in use for 32 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Bellamy spelled?
- Bellomy. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.