Belle

A female given name, form of Bella.

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Belle is a French feminine given name meaning "beautiful", sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Isabella. It may refer to:
People:
Isabella Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), American author
Belle Baker (1893–1957), American singer and actress
Belle Baranceanu (1902–1988), American artist
Belle Benchley (1882–1972), American director of the San Diego Zoo from 1927 to 1953
Belle Bennett (1891–1932), American stage and screen actress
Isabella Belle Boyd (1843–1900), Confederate spy during the American Civil War
Belle Brezing (1860–1940), American brothel owner, believed to be the model for Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind
Belle Chrystall (1910–2003), British actress
Belle Cole (1845–1905), American singer
Belle Cooledge (1884–1955), American politician, first female mayor of Sacramento, California
Belle Gunness (1859–1908), Norwegian-American female serial killer
Belle Kinney Scholz (1890–1959), Euro-American sculptor
Belle Goshorn MacCorkle (1841–1923), American former First Lady of West Virginia
Belle Mitchell (1889–1979), American film actress
Belle Montrose (1886–1963), Irish-American actress and vaudeville performer born Isabelle Donohue
Isabella Belle Moore (1894–1975), Scottish freestyle swimmer
Belle Moskowitz (1877–1933), political advisor to New York Governor and 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith
Belle Perez, stage name of Maribel Pérez (born 1976), Flemish musician and songwriter
Belle Reynolds (1840–1937), American heroine of the American Civil War
Ruth Isabel Belle Skinner (1866–1928), American businesswoman
Belle Starr (1848–1889), American outlaw born Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr
Fictional characters:
Belle, from the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast
Belle (Disney), from the 1991 Disney film Beauty and the Beast, based on the fairy tale
Belle (Once Upon a Time) (maiden name French, married name Gold), a character from the ABC television series Once Upon a Time
Belle, from Charles Dickens's holiday-themed novel A Christmas Carol
Belle Black, from the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives
Belle Dingle, from the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
Belle Dupree, from the CBS sitcom Alice
Belle Taylor, from the Seven Network soap opera Home and Away
Belle Watling, from the novel Gone with the Wind and the film adaptation
Belle the Sleeping Car, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Starlight Express
Belle, one of the title characters of Belle et Sébastien, a French children's novel by Cécile Aubry
Belle, one of Snoopy's siblings from the comic strip Peanuts
Belle, a big blue fire fighting engine in Thomas & Friends

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"beautiful woman well-dressed; reigning beauty," 1620s, from French belle, from Old French bele, from Latin bella, fem. of bellus "beautiful, fair," from PIE *dwenelo-, diminutive form of root *deu- (2) "to do, perform; show favor, revere." "The dim. meaning is the reason why bellus was originally used to refer to women and children; it was applied to men only ironically" [de Vaan].

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Short form of Isabella and other names ending in bella. Means: beautiful, loving, lovable, graceful, devoted to God.

Bella, Elle, Elizabeth

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Belle Knox	1995	American pornographic actress
2	Camilla Belle	1986	American actress
3	Lexi Belle	1987	American pornographic actress
4	Dido Elizabeth Belle	1761	British slave (until 1782)
5	Belle Gunness	1859	Norwegian-American serial killer
6	David Belle	1973	French actor
7	Belle Starr	1848	American outlaw
8	Belle Dingle		Fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale
9	Belle Gibson	1991
10	Belle Black		Fictional character from the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
11	Albert Belle	1966	American baseball player
12	Belle de Jour	1975	British writer
13	Belle Monappa Hegde	1938	Indian surgeon
14	Regina Belle	1963	American singer
15	Belle		Fictional character on Once Upon A Time
16	Andrew Belle	1984	American singer-songwriter
17	Belle Boyd	1844	American Confederate spy
18	Annie Belle	1956	French actress
19	Belle Taylor
20	Raymond Belle	1939	French soldier and firefighter
21	Jacqueline Belle	1989	German voice actor
22	Bernard Belle	1964	American musician
23	Belle da Costa Greene	1883	American librarian
24	Maxi Belle	1995	German voice actor
25	Belle W. Baruch	1899	American business woman
26	Belle Perez	1976	Belgian musician and songwriter.
27	Sharon Belle	1993
28	Shawn Belle	1985	Canadian ice hockey player
29	Anomie Belle	1980	American musician
30	Belle Brockhoff	1993	Australian snowboarder
31	Belle Brezing	1860	American brothel owner
32	Belle Baker	1893	Actress, singer, radio host
33	Belle Case La Follette	1859	American politician
34	Belle Bennett	1891	Film actress
35	Belle Barth	1911	American comedian
36	Belle Moskowitz	1877	American activist
37	Alexis Simon Belle	1674	French painter
38	Belle Montrose	1886	American actress
39	Belle Dupree
40	Henri Belle	1989	Cameroonian footballer
41	Belle S. Spafford	1895	American Mormon leader
42	James D. La Belle	1925	Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
43	Belle du Berry	1966	French singer
44	Belle Stewart	1906	British singer
45	Belle Benchley	1882	American zoo director
46	Belle Moore	1894	British swimmer, Olympic gold medallist
47	Belle Robertson	1936	Amateur golfer
48	Belle Zimmerman	2000	Dutch actress
49	Jits Van Belle	1976	Belgian actress
50	Belle Mitchell	1889	Actress
51	Belle Chrystall	1910	British actress
52	Belle Kogan	1902	American industrial designer
53	Ekkehardt Belle	1954	German actor
54	J.J. Belle	1955	British session musician
55	Paule de Viguier	1518
56	Cortez Belle	1983	English footballer
57	Belle Sherwin	1869	American activist
58	Belle Baranceanu	1902	American artist
59	Belle Kearney	1863	American politician
60	Jennifer Belle	1968	American writer
61	Wouter Van Belle	1964	Belgian record producer
62	Belle Cora		Madam of the Barbary Coast
63	Francis Belle
64	Jean-Paul Van Belle	1961	Professor of information technology in South Africa
65	Belle Kendrick Abbott	1842	Novelist
66	Jenijoy La Belle	1943
67	Antoinette van Belle	1964	Dutch actress
68	Belle Johnson	1864	American photographer
69	Belle Kinney Scholz	1890	American sculptor
70	Gloria Belle	1939	Bluegrass musician
71	Gerard van Belle	1968	American astronomer
72	Charles Belle	1956	French painter
73	Belinda Mariano	2002	Filipina actress
74	Belle Cole	1853	American opera singer
75	Belle Adler		Associate professor of journalism
76	Belle Reynolds	1840	American Civil War nurse
77	Marie-Paule Belle	1946	French singer
78	Belle Skinner	1866	American businessman
79	Meinrad Belle	1943	German politician
80	Belle Puri		Canadian journalist
81	Belle Cooledge	1884	American mayor
82	Andrée Belle
83	Brian Belle	1914	Cricketer
84	Jean-Louis van Belle	1939	French film director
85	Isabelle Reid	1883	Australian veterinarian
86	Isabella Golding	1864
87	Clément-Louis-Marie-Anne Belle	1722	French painter
88	Kamryn Belle		Singer
89	Lisa Belle	1975
90	Belle Goshorn MacCorkle	1841	First Lady of West Virginia
91	Jo Van Belle	1971	Belgian radio host
92	Augustin-Louis Belle	1757	French painter
93	Belle O'Loughlin		Camogie administrator
94	Jean-Louis Van Belle
95	Nick Van Belle	1993	Belgian association football player
96	Gabriel-Alexandre Belle	1782	French writer
97	Belle Shafir	1953	German sculptor
98	Tia-Adana Belle	1996
99	Belle Steel		Irish activist
100	Belle Yang
101	Belle Archer	1858	American actress (1858-1900)
102	Erika Belle	1956	Dutch chess player
103	François Van Belle	1881	Belgian politician
104	Antoine-Dieudonné Belle	1824	French politician
105	Ivan Belle	1867
106	Belle Story
107	Joshua van Belle	1637	Dutch politician
108	Belle Wheelan		Educator who served as Virginia Secretary of Education under Governor Mark Warner.
109	Belle Chen	1988
110	Belle Shenkman	1928
111	Ingebrigt Belle	1773	Norwegian activist
112	Belle Turnbull	1881
113	Belle van Dorn Harbert	1860	American activist
114	Gustave van Belle	1912	Belgian bicycle racer
115	Charles Van Belle	1881	Belgian politician
116	Jean-Baptiste Julien Belle	1740	French politician
117	Belle Daube	1887	British-American actress
118	Jan Belle		Belgian composer
119	Ignace Van Belle	1932	Belgian politician
120	Earl Belle
121	Juliaan van Belle	1921	Belgian historian
122	Hans Belle	1910
123	Belle Armstrong Whitney
124	Malla Malmivaara	1982	Finnish actress and singer (b. 1982)
125	Richard Van Belle	1920	Belgian malacologist
126	Étienne-Benjamin Belle		French jeweler
127	Agnes van Belle	1986
128	Tula Belle	1906
129	Belle Highwalking	1892
130	Belle Derks	1979
131	Maybelle Schlumpfert	1900	Model for art photography in magazines and cabaret actress