About the name Belen
Belen belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Belen first appears in Social Security records in 1909. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #669 in 2024, and in 2024 430 babies received the name — 11,940 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.