Entry № 1333 · French origin

Bellamy Bellamy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BEL-uh-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Beautiful friend (Bellamy Blake; modern unisex)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "beautiful friend (bellamy blake; modern unisex)".

Bellamy is from the Old French bel-ami (beautiful friend) — historically a male Norman surname now used as a modern unisex given name.

Beautiful friend (Bellamy Blake; modern unisex) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Bellamy
Transliteration
Bellamy
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɛl.ə.mi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bellamy stands.

Bellamy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Bellamys before her.

Real people
Carol Bellamy
UNICEF Executive Director 1995-2005.
born 1942
In fiction
Bellamy Blake
The CW's The 100.
2014

Names connected to Bellamy.

The number behind Bellamy.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bellamy reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.