Entry № 1336 · French origin

Belle Belle — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BELL /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Beautiful (the French Beauty and the Beast heroine)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "beautiful (the french beauty and the beast heroine)".

Belle is from the French belle (beautiful) — the feminine form of beau. "La Belle" — "Beauty" — is the heroine of the French fairy tale La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) first published by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve in 1740; Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's 1756 abridged version is the version most commonly read today. Disney's animated Beauty and the Beast (1991) was the first animated film nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards; the live-action 2017 remake with Emma Watson became one of the highest-grossing films of 2017. Belle Starr (1848-1889) — American outlaw.

Beautiful (the French Beauty and the Beast heroine) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Belle
Transliteration
Belle
Pronunciation
/ bɛl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Belle stands.

Belle 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.

Belles before her.

Real people
Belle Boyd
American Civil War spy.
1844 – 1900
Belle Starr
American outlaw.
1848 – 1889
In fiction
Belle
Beauty and the Beast.
1740

Names connected to Belle.

The number behind Belle.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Belle reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.