Bella
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.
It increased in usage following the publication of the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer. It is also known for being a nickname to Isabella, Annabella or Arabella.
Given name
People
- Bella Abzug, American politician and prominent figure in the women's movement
- Bella Agossou, Beninese actress
- Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet/Russian poet, writer, and translator
- Bella Alarie, American basketball player
- Bella Alten, Polish operatic soprano
- Bella Alubo, Nigerian musician, singer, and songwriter
- Bella Andre, American author
- Bella Angara, Filipina politician and former governor of Aurora province
- Bella Bautista, American beauty pageant titleholder and transgender rights activist
- Bella Bayliss, Scottish triathlete
- Bella Bellow, Togolese singer
- Bella Bixby, American soccer player
- Bella Blue, American burlesque dancer and producer
- Bella Burge, American-born British actress, music hall performer, and boxing promoter
- Bella A. Burnasheva, Soviet/Russian astronomer
- Bella Cortez, Cuban actress and dancer
- Bella Darvi, Polish-born French actress
- Bella Davidovich, Soviet-born American classical pianist
- Bella Dayne, German actress
- Bella Disu, Nigerian businesswoman
- Bella Dodd, American teacher, lawyer, labor union activist, and communist-turned anti-communist
- Bella Dorita, Spanish cabaret singer, dancer, and vedette
- Bella Duffy, Irish translator and writer
- Bella Emberg, English comedic actress
- Bella Feldman, American sculptor
- Bella Ferraro, Australian singer
- Bella Flores, Filipina film actress
- Bella Forsgrén, Finnish politician
- Bella French Swisher, American author, editor, and litterateur
- Bella Freud, London-based fashion designer
- Bella Fromm, German journalist and author of Jewish heritage
- Bella Galhos, East Timorese former independence activist
- Bella Awa Gassama, Gambian actress
- Bella Hall Gauld, Canadian labour educator, political activist, and pianist
- Bella Gesser, Israeli chess player
- Bella Goodall, English soubrette of the Victorian theatre
- Bella Guerin, Australian feminist, women's activist, women's suffragist, anti-conscriptionist, political activist, and schoolteacher
- Bella Hadid, American model
- Bella Hammond, American activist and commercial fisherman
- Bella Hardy, English folk musician, singer and songwriter
- Bella Heathcote, Australian actress and model
- Bella Horwitz, Bohemian Yiddish writer and historian
- Bella Hristova, Bulgarian-American violinist
- Bella Igla, Israeli woman chess grandmaster
- Bella Jakubiak, Australian chef
- Bella Jarrett, American stage, television, and film actress and novelist
- Bella Jimenez, Ecuadorian politician
- Bella Joseph, American alleged to be a Soviet spy
- Bella Keyzer, Scottish weaver, welder, and shipyard worker
- Bella Kocharyan, wife of Armenian former President Robert Kocharyan
- Bella Clara Landauer, American collector and writer
- Bella La Rosa, Venezuelan pageant titleholder
- Bella Lewitzky, American modern dance choreographer and teacher
- Bella Li, Chinese-born Australian poet
- Bella MacCallum, New Zealand and British botanist and mycologist
- Bella Mackie, English journalist and author
- Bella Milo, Samoan rugby union player
- Bella Myat Thiri Lwin, Burmese actress, model, and beauty pageant title holder
- Bella Nagy, Hungarian actress
- Bella Nisan, Russian ophthalmologist
- Bella Ouellette, Canadian actress
- Bella Paalen, Austrian-American operatic soprano of Hungarian origin
- Bella Paige, Australian singer
- Bella Paredes, Ecuadorian weightlifter
- Bella bat R. Jakob Perlhefter, Czech professional Hebrew letter writer, businesswoman, and music instructor
- Bella Piero, Brazilian actress
- Bella Poarch, Filipino-American singer and social media personality
- Bella Ramsey, English actor and singer
- Bella Ratchinskaia, Russian ballerina, ballet teacher, and choreographer
- Bella Reay, English footballer
- Bella Rosenfeld, Belarusian writer, first wife of painter Marc Chagall
- Bella Santiago, Filipino singer
- Bella Shaw, American journalist and news presenter
- Bella Shmurda, Nigerian singer
- Bella Shteinbuk, Israeli pianist and educator
- Bella Shumiatcher, Russian-Canadian-American pianist and music educator
- Bella Sims, American swimmer
- Bella Smith, Australian rules footballer
- Bella Zilfa Spencer, English-born American novelist and editor
- Bella Spewack, Romanian-American writer, half of a husband-and-wife writing team
- Bella Starace Sainati, Italian stage and film actress
- Bella Subbotovskaya, Soviet mathematician
- Bella Taylor Smith, Australian singer
- Bella Thomasson, British bookmaker
- Bella Thorne, American actress
- Bella Tovey, Polish Holocaust survivor
- Bella van der Spiegel-Hage, Dutch former professional cyclist
- Bella Clara Ventura, Colombian-Mexican novelist and poet
- Bella Sidney Woolf, English author
Fictional characters
- 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
- 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