The Belin surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,398 people carried this name — #12,837 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 123,500 people counted. That is up 22% from 1,958 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 3,968 people named Belin.
48 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 95 départements, most often Paris.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 133 people named Belin live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
47 people named Belin live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
475 people named Belin is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Belin in American newspapers,
1899.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 12,007 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Belin,
with a public archive behind them.
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Nicolas Belin 1489–1570 · painter
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Nicolas Belin 1489–1569 · painter
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Nicolas Belin 1490–1570 · painter
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Nicolas Belin 1490–1569 · painter
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Guillaume Belin 1500–1568 · composer
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Julien Belin 1530–1584 · writer
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Belin.
- Belec 224 · U.S. census
- Belen 1,372 · U.S. census
- Beley 273 · U.S. census
- Belfiore 1,354 · U.S. census
- Belfort 293 · U.S. census
- Beliard 142 · U.S. census
- Belis 251 · U.S. census
- Belizaire 1,824 · U.S. census
- Bell 220,599 · U.S. census
- Bella 2,999 · U.S. census
- Bellagamba 166 · U.S. census
- Bellair 178 · U.S. census
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