Girl
Belva
As a girl's name, Belva is understood to mean "beautiful view". It seems to have quietly disappeared from birth records after the 1920s. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. 1927 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.
LatinPossibly Latin "bella" (beautiful) + "vue" (view)
EtymologyMeaning "beautiful view"
Births by decade
1900s
505
1910s
1,265
1920s
1,650
1930s
1,575
1940s
1,145
1950s
766
1960s
307
1970s
113
1980s
35
1990s
5
2000s
10
2010s
0
Peaked in the 1920s · 7,376 total U.S. births since 1900