The Belamy Family Name

Ask a genealogist about Belamy and the first name they will mention is Bellamy. Read literally, Belamy points to “fine friend”. Belamy drops the “l” of Bellamy, a simplification that clerks often made. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Related forms: Bellamie.

From 1891 to 2000, 265 births in France were registered under Belamy. There were 14 such births in the 1890s and 37 in the 1990s.

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