Belen
About 12,366 American babies have been named Belen since 1909, most of them around 2024. In 2025 it ranked 785th. About 11,000 Belens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Belen boys named Belen
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 12,366
- Estimated living today
- 11,000
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 671st
- Rank in 2025
- 785th
- First recorded
- 1909
- Girls / boys
- 12,287 / 79
How old the living Belens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 12,366 babies given the name since 1909, about 11,000 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 5,800 of them are children and 470 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Belens
- Belén Rueda (born 1965)Spanish actress
- Belén Cuesta (born 1984)Spanish actress
- Belén Rodríguez (born 1984)Argentinian television personality, actress and model
- Belén Succi (born 1985)Argentine field hockey player
- Belén Fabra (born 1977)Spanish actress
- Belén López (born 1970)Spanish actress
- Belén Esteban (born 1973)Spanish television personality
- María Belén Pérez Maurice (born 1985)Argentine fencer
People named Belen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Belen is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Belen is most concentrated in California (4.3×), Arizona (3.9×), Texas (3.0×), Nevada (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular girls’ names the year Belen peaked:
Belen elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Belen | 1,902 | 64th |
| France girls | Belen +1 spelling | 170 | 2,513th |
| England and Wales girls | Belen | 20 | 4,634th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Belen among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Belen +1 spelling | 8 | 21 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Belen lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 34,039 women called Belen were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albacete | Belen | 692 | 3.555 | 63 |
| Córdoba | Belen | 1,017 | 2.573 | 81 |
| Badajoz | Belen | 811 | 2.407 | 97 |
| Cantabria | Belen | 628 | 2.051 | 107 |
| Huelva | Belen | 552 | 2.034 | 93 |
| Madrid | Belen | 7,337 | 1.980 | 97 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Belen against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.