Belle Family History
- Belle Name Meaning
- Italian (Bellé): from a reduced derivative of Bello, for example Belletto. French: from Belle meaning ‘beautiful’. In medieval times this epithet was often combined with a baptismal name, e.g. Bellemarie. German: habitational name from a place so named in the Lippe district. 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 185,781 Historical Documents with Belle on Ancestry
- 75,599 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 44,698 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,706 Military Records
- 5,397 Immigration Records
- 55,381 Member Trees
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Number of Belle families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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21 - 40 8 - 20 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Belle census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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