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First name origins & meanings:

1. Spanish: Beautiful
2. Old French: Handsome friend

First name variations: Belynda, Belle, Linda, Bella, Belva, Beauty, Bellini, Belita, Belladonna, Belva, Belvia, Balina, Balinah, Balinda, Ballinda, Ballindah, Belinda, Belami, Belamie, Belamy, Bellamey, Bellamie, Bellamy

Last name origins & meanings:

1. Scottish and northern English: from Middle English belle ‘bell’, in various applications; most probably a metonymic occupational name for a bell ringer or bell maker, or a topographic name for someone living ‘at the bell’ (as attested by 14th-century forms such as John atte Belle). This indicates either residence by an actual bell (e.g. a town’s bell in a bell tower, centrally placed to summon meetings, sound the alarm, etc.) or ‘at the sign of the bell’, i.e. a house or inn sign (although surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in Scots and English).
2. Scottish and northern English: from the medieval personal name Bel. As a man’s name this is from Old French beu, bel ‘handsome’, which was also used as a nickname. As a female name it represents a short form of Isobel, a form of Elizabeth.
3. Scottish: Americanized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhaoil ‘son of the servant of the devotee’ (see Mullen 1).
4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.
5. Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead in western Norway named Bell, the origin of which is unexplained.
6. Scandinavian: of English or German origin; in German as a habitational name for someone from Bell in Rhineland, Germany, or possibly from Belle in Westphalia.
7. Americanized spelling of German Böhl or Böll (see Boehle, Boll).