Bella
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| Pronunciation | beh-lah |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Language | Italian, English |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | "beauty" |
| Region of origin | Italy, Spain, Greece |
| Other names | |
| Anglicisation | Belle |
| Derivatives | Isabella, Isabelle, Bella, Belle, Annabella, Annabelle, Bellalina |
Bella is a feminine given name. It is a diminutive form of names ending in -bella. Bella is related to the Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Latin words for beautiful, and to the name Belle, meaning beautiful in French.[1][2]
It increased in usage following the publication of the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer.[3] It is also known for being a nickname to Isabella, Annabella or Arabella.
Given name
[edit | edit source]People
[edit | edit source]- Bella Abzug (1920–1998), American politician and prominent figure in the women's movement
- Bella Agossou (born 1981), Beninese actress
- Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), Soviet/Russian poet, writer, and translator
- Bella Alarie (born 1998), American basketball player
- Bella Alten (1877–1962), Polish operatic soprano
- Bella Alubo (born 1993), Nigerian musician, singer, and songwriter
- Bella Andre (fl. 2010), American author
- Bella Angara (born 1939), Filipina politician and former governor of Aurora province
- Bella Bautista, American beauty pageant titleholder and transgender rights activist
- Bella Bayliss (born 1977), Scottish triathlete
- Bella Bellow (1945–1973), Togolese singer
- Bella Bixby (born 1995), American soccer player
- Bella Blue (born 1982), American burlesque dancer and producer
- Bella Burge (1877–1962), American-born British actress, music hall performer, and boxing promoter
- Bella A. Burnasheva (born 1944), Soviet/Russian astronomer
- Bella Cortez (born 1944), Cuban actress and dancer
- Bella Darvi (1928–1971), Polish-born French actress
- Bella Davidovich (born 1928), Soviet-born American classical pianist
- Bella Dayne (born 1988), German actress
- Bella Disu (born 1986), Nigerian businesswoman
- Bella Dodd (1904–1969), American teacher, lawyer, labor union activist, and communist-turned anti-communist
- Bella Dorita (1901–2001), Spanish cabaret singer, dancer, and vedette
- Bella Duffy (1849–1926), Irish translator and writer
- Bella Emberg (1937–2018), English comedic actress
- Bella Feldman (1930–2024), American sculptor
- Bella Ferraro (born 1994), Australian singer
- Bella Flores (1936–2013), Filipina film actress
- Bella Forsgrén (born 1992), Finnish politician
- Bella French Swisher (1837–1893), American author, editor, and litterateur
- Bella Freud (born 1961), London-based fashion designer
- Bella Fromm (1890–1972), German journalist and author of Jewish heritage
- Bella Galhos (born 1972), East Timorese former independence activist
- Bella Awa Gassama, Gambian actress
- Bella Hall Gauld (1878–1961), Canadian labour educator, political activist, and pianist
- Bella Gesser (born 1985), Israeli chess player
- Bella Goodall (1851–1884), English soubrette of the Victorian theatre
- Bella Guerin (1858–1923), Australian feminist, women's activist, women's suffragist, anti-conscriptionist, political activist, and schoolteacher
- Bella Hadid (born 1996), American model
- Bella Hammond (1932–2020), American activist and commercial fisherman
- Bella Hardy, English folk musician, singer and songwriter
- Bella Heathcote (born 1987), Australian actress and model
- Bella Horwitz, Bohemian Yiddish writer and historian
- Bella Hristova (born 1985), Bulgarian-American violinist
- Bella Igla (born 1985), Israeli woman chess grandmaster
- Bella Jakubiak (born 1983), Australian chef
- Bella Jarrett (1926–2007), American stage, television, and film actress and novelist
- Bella Jimenez (born c. 1982), Ecuadorian politician
- Bella Joseph, American alleged to be a Soviet spy
- Bella Keyzer (1922–1992), Scottish weaver, welder, and shipyard worker
- Bella Kocharyan (born 1954), wife of Armenian former President Robert Kocharyan
- Bella Clara Landauer (1874–1960), American collector and writer
- Bella La Rosa (born 1949), Venezuelan pageant titleholder
- Bella Lewitzky (1916–2004), American modern dance choreographer and teacher
- Bella Li (born 1983), Chinese-born Australian poet
- Bella MacCallum (1886–1927), New Zealand and British botanist and mycologist
- Bella Mackie (born 1983), English journalist and author
- Bella Milo (born 1986), Samoan rugby union player
- Bella Myat Thiri Lwin (born 1999), Burmese actress, model, and beauty pageant title holder
- Bella Nagy (1879–1947), Hungarian actress
- Bella Nisan, Russian ophthalmologist
- Bella Ouellette (1886–1945), Canadian actress
- Bella Paalen (1881–1964), Austrian-American operatic soprano of Hungarian origin
- Bella Paige (born 2001), Australian singer
- Bella Paredes (born 2002), Ecuadorian weightlifter
- Bella bat R. Jakob Perlhefter (c. 1650-1709/1710), Czech professional Hebrew letter writer, businesswoman, and music instructor
- Bella Piero (born 1996), Brazilian actress
- Bella Poarch (born 1997), Filipino-American singer and social media personality
- Bella Ramsey (born 2003), English actor and singer
- Bella Ratchinskaia (born 1953), Russian ballerina, ballet teacher, and choreographer
- Bella Reay (1900–1979), English footballer
- Bella Rosenfeld (1895–1944), Belarusian writer, first wife of painter Marc Chagall
- Bella Santiago (born 1989), Filipino singer
- Bella Shaw, American journalist and news presenter
- Bella Shmurda (born 1997), Nigerian singer
- Bella Shteinbuk (born 1960), Israeli pianist and educator
- Bella Shumiatcher (1911–1990), Russian-Canadian-American pianist and music educator
- Bella Sims (born 2005), American swimmer
- Bella Smith (born 2001), Australian rules footballer
- Bella Zilfa Spencer (1840–1867), English-born American novelist and editor
- Bella Spewack (1899–1990), Romanian-American writer, half of a husband-and-wife writing team
- Bella Starace Sainati (1878–1958), Italian stage and film actress
- Bella Subbotovskaya (1937–1982), Soviet mathematician
- Bella Taylor Smith, Australian singer
- Bella Thomasson (1874–1959), British bookmaker
- Bella Thorne (born 1997), American actress
- Bella Tovey (1926–2019), Polish Holocaust survivor
- Bella van der Spiegel-Hage (born 1948), Dutch former professional cyclist
- Bella Clara Ventura, Colombian-Mexican novelist and poet
- Bella Sidney Woolf (1877–1960), English author
Fictional characters
[edit | edit source]- Bella, a character in the CBeebies show, Tweenies
- Bella, the eponymous heroine of the novel by Jilly Cooper
- Bella Baxter, the protagonist of the film Poor Things (film)
- Bella Bunny, a bilingual rabbit from the Chuck E. Cheese restaurants
- Bella the Bunny Fairy, from the Rainbow Magic book franchise
- Bella Cooper, from the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
- Bella Dawson, the protagonist of the Nickelodeon television series Bella and the Bulldogs
- Bella Goth, from The Sims series of video games
- Bella Lasagne, an Italian cafe owner from Fireman Sam
- Bella Nixon, from the Australian television soap opera Home and Away
- Bella Noche, a character who first appeared in the episode "Betty" of the animated series Adventure Time
- Bella Pesky, the little sister of Maggie, Aldrin and Pupert Pesky in The Buzz on Maggie
- Bella Swan, the human protagonist of the Twilight series
- Bellatrix Lestrange, nicknamed Bella, a Death Eater and antagonist in the "Harry Potter" series
- Bella Lind, from the science-fiction novel Pushing Ice
See also
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