Bellamy was originally a French surname meaning ‘beautiful friend’ or ‘good friend’. It quickly became an English surname as well.
Bellamy is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to girls than to boys.
Few children have been named Bellamy in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 11 out of 100,000 children are currently called Bellamy. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Bellamy at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Bellamy is number *** on the list of most common first names.
Bellamy was originally a French surname meaning ‘beautiful friend’ or ‘good friend’. It quickly became an English surname as well.
As a given name,... it is only in use since the 2010s.
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 seven letters, the name Bellamy has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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 Bellamy 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 Bellamy, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Apple
Mouse
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Bellamy
Bellamy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
E
L
L
A
M
Y
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
L
A
M
Y
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. Bellamy sounds like this:
