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The belle Surname

belle Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian (Bellé): from a reduced derivative of Bello, for example Belletto.
  2. French: from Belle meaning ‘beautiful’. In medieval times this epithet was often combined with a baptismal name, e.g. Bellemarie.
  3. German: habitational name from a place so named in the Lippe district.
  4. German spelling of Slovenian Bele, nickname denoting a fair-haired or pale-skinned person, a derivative of bel ‘white’, ‘light’, ‘fair’, formed with the suffix -e, typically denoting a young person.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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belle Family Facts

Distribution of belle Families in the US in 1920
Number of belle families
 78-154
 27-77		 1-26
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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