Bel Family History

French: nickname for a handsome man (perhaps also ironically for an ugly one) from Old French beu bel ‘beautiful handsome’ (from Late Latin bellus). Compare Lebel and Beau.

Hungarian (Bél): from the old personal name Bél or perhaps from bél ‘inside internal part’. The latter may have been an occupational name for an indoor servant i.e. one who worked inside a great house.

Dutch: possibly an altered form of Scottish Bell.