Bellón History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Spain
Wales

The ancestry of those bearing the name of Bellón is rooted in an ancient Spanish landscape. The process by which hereditary surnames were adopted in Spain is extremely interesting. Surnames evolved during the Middle Ages when people began to assume an extra name to avoid confusion and to further identify themselves. Often they adopted names that were derived from nicknames. Nickname surnames were derived from an eke-name, or added name. They usually reflected the physical characteristics or attributes of the first person that used the name. The name Bellón is a nickname surname for a fair or handsome man. The surname was originally derived from the Latin adjective bellus, which means beautiful. The Belén, Bellon and other like variants are the Spanish name for Bethlehem and are frequently used as a forename.

Early Origins of the Bellón family

The surname Bellón was first found in Galicia, in the northwestern region of the Iberian peninsula.

Early History of the Bellón family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Bellón research. Another 97 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1064, 1540, 1660 and 1714 are included under the topic Early Bellón History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Bellón Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Bello, Bella, Bellón, Bellon, Belloso and many more.

Early Notables of the Bellón family

Prominent among members of the family Juan Bello de Guzmán, who was made a Knight of St. John in 1540, and Venezuelan lawyer, educator; Benito Bello de Torices (c. 1660-1714), a Spanish composer, maestro at the Convent of Las...
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Bellón Ranking

In France, the name Bellón is the 2,172^nd most popular surname with an estimated 2,924 people with that name. 1

Bellón migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Bellón Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Andres Bellon, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1871 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Bellón (post 1700) +

Pierre Bellon (1930-2022), French billionaire businessman, founder of Sodexo, a multinational food service and facilities management company
Marie-Annick "Yannick" Bellon (1924-2019), French film director, editor and screenwriter
Louis Henri Charles de Bellon de Sainte-Marguerite, French Brigadier General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 3
Yagó Bellón (b. 1989), Swiss association footballer
Roger Bellon, French film, television, theatre, opera and dance composer, conductor
Damian Bellón (b. 1989), Swiss footballer

Citations +

http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, February 11) Louis Bellon. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html