Bellarose
Feminine · “beautiful rose”
Bellarose is two names written as one: Bella, the Italian word for beautiful, and Rose, the flower. Closing a double name into a single word is a modern American habit that forms and databases encouraged.
How old is the name Bellarose?
Bellarose first appears in US birth records in 2003 — 22 years ago. The typical Bellarose is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Bellarose are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Bellarose most popular?
Bellarose peaked in 2018, reaching #1840 nationally. Today it ranks #3249, 1,409 places below that high. See the whole 2018 chart.
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Where it comes from
From bellus to Bellarose
The story of Bellarose
Double first names have been given in America for centuries — Mary Jane, Anna Belle, Lily May — and were traditionally written as two words. The habit of closing them up is recent and practical: forms offer a single field for a given name, and a second word gets treated as a middle name or discarded. Bellarose, Lilyrose and Maryjane all appear in current American records for exactly that reason.
Meaning
beautiful rose
Bella is Italian and Spanish for beautiful, from Latin bellus, and also serves as a short form of Isabella. Rose is the flower, from Latin rosa, and has been an English given name since the Middle Ages, when it was also a Norman name of Germanic origin.
How the name formed
- bellus
- Bella
- Bellarose
Related forms: Bella Rose · Bellarosa
Pronouncing Bellarose
BEL-uh-rohz
Three syllables with the main stress on the first. Said as two names run together, not as one word.
Nicknames for Bellarose
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2003
- Most girls named
- 2018110 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1840reached in 2018
- Change vs 2024
- +11.6%48 in 2025, from 43
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Bellarose in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Bella Rose in English — same name
- Bellarosa in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Texas.
Bellaroses among us
people named Bellarose are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 33,485 born in 2025 was named Bellarose
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Freedom test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Bellarose's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Freedom climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Freedom's path sketches the road Bellarose is walking now.
Bellarose sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Bellarose is headed
Bellarose is easing off slowly — about 29% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Bellarose beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Bellarose in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two complete, familiar names sit inside it and either works alone.
- Both halves have settled meanings that are easy to explain.
- Written as one word, it survives forms that discard a second given name.
- Systems and teachers will split it back into Bella Rose or drop the second half.
- Nine letters in one field is awkward, and the capital R is usually lost.
- Bella is extremely widely used, so the everyday name will not be distinctive.
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Frequently asked
- How many Bellaroses are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Bellarose are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Bellarose in 2025?
- Bellarose ranks #3249 among US girl names in 2025, with 48 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Bellarose?
- About 1 in every 33,485 US girls born in 2025 was named Bellarose — 48 in all.
- Will my child share the name Bellarose with classmates?
- Bellarose will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Bellarose
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