Entry № 1327 · Sanskrit origin

Bela Bela — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BEH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Time / shore"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "time / shore".

Bela is from the Sanskrit Belā.

Time / shore — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

बेला
Transliteration
Belā
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɛ.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bela stands.

Bela does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Belas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bela Bartok
Hungarian composer-pianist 1881-1945 + ethnomusicologist + Bluebeards Castle 1911 + Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta 1936
Hungarian music

Names connected to Bela.

The number behind Bela.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bela reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.