Bell

See also: bell, bèll, and bell'

English

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Bell (disambiguation)

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Homophones: bell, belle

Proper noun

Bell (countable and uncountable, plural Bells)

1. A surname of Scottish and northern English origin for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)."
   • 2015 June 1, The Onion Staff, “Disgruntled Bandmates Worried Rivers Cuomo’s Wife Becoming The Fifth Weezer”, in The Onion‎, archived from the original on 27 April 2024, retrieved 9 December 2025:

     “As far as I’m concerned, wives come and go, but Weezers are forever. And if Rivers [Cuomo] doesn’t realize that, then maybe he just doesn’t understand what being a Weezer is all about.” At press time, an increasingly frustrated Bell had reportedly announced plans to split off from the group and pursue projects as a solo Weezer.

2. The Bell telephone company (after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)
3. A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
4. A female given name, variant of Belle; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.
   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

     Here, Isabel, here is the good gentleman’s handkerchief; keep it for him now, till he comes to see little Bell again.

   • 1857, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Perils of Certain English Prisoners:

     […] I found that her Christian name was Isabella, which they shortened into Bell, and that the name of the deceased non-commissioned officer was Tott. Being the kind of neat little woman it was natural to make a toy of—I never saw a woman so like a toy in my life—she had got the plaything name of Belltott. In short, she had no other name on the island.

5. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A city in Los Angeles County, California.
   2. A town in Gilchrist County, Florida.
   3. An unincorporated community in Logan County, Illinois.
   4. A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma.
   5. A town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
   6. Three townships in Pennsylvania.
6. A village in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
7. A village in the City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
8. A rural town in Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
9. A municipality of Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
10. A municipality of Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Derived terms

• Baby Bell
• Bell County
• Bellhead
• Bell Island
• Bell pair
• Bell Park
• Bell Post Hill
• Bell shot
• Bell state
• Ma Bell
• Port Bell

Noun

Bell (plural Bells)

1. (US, Canada) a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.

See also

• Bell Plain

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bell is the 106^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 220,599 individuals. Bell is most common among White (61.11%) and Black (32.35%) individuals.