Bela is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Bela is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Bela each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Bela will meet someone with the same name. So, Bela is a very special name!
If your name is Bela your parents may be very proud to let their child swim against the tide: The name Bela never ranked higher than position 4,049 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their offspring Bela. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1915 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Bela because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Bela was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Bela still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 38 times in the entire U.S. So, a Bela from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 3.7% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With four letters, the name Bela is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.7%, B as the first letter in given names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Bela and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Bela, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Bela
Bela
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
E
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
E
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Bela sounds like this:
