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bella Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian: from the medieval female personal name Bella, meaning ‘beautiful’, ‘lovely’.
  2. Italian: possibly a habitational name from Basilicata Bella, in Potenza, probably so named with Latin labellum ‘little basin’.
  3. Greek: reduced form of Bellas.

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Distribution of bella Families in the US in 1920
Number of bella families
 40-77
 14-39
 1-13
 0
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