Doesn’t sound right for a boy in my opinion. It’s the Bella part that is associated with the female form of beautiful and I speak 5 languages. So yeah, sounds better for a girl. Feel bad for the guy who has it as a first name.
― Anonymous User 4/5/2023, edited 4/5/2023
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Took a beautiful French phrase and absolutely butchered it. Awful name.
― Anonymous User 11/21/2022
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I actually like it. I think it's a great name if you like the sound of 'Bella', but think Isabella and Annabella are too popular. I would use it as a first name for a girl, or a gender neutral middle name.
― Anonymous User 9/16/2022
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It sounds nice as a last name but not as a first name.
The phrase "bel ami" was grammatically masculine in Old French - as far as I can tell from a quick lookup, the feminine version would have been "bele amie." So - though I'm not a stickler for strict gender in names - there's more precedent to use this for a boy's name than a girl's.
I really love this. The nickname could be Bella, cool!
― Anonymous User 12/1/2020
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It sounds like they couldn’t choose between Bella or Amy so they combined it. Eurgh.
― Anonymous User 11/28/2020
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Please please please don’t do this to a poor little girl! I would absolutely hate being stuck with this name!
― Anonymous User 10/31/2020
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I don’t like the name Bella that much but I do like my own name, Amy. It looks as if they’ve combined Bella and Amy together. I don’t like this name because it looks far more dated than my own name, which is quite dated but beautiful like what Bella means.
― Anonymous User 10/30/2020
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They just combined the name 'Bella' and 'Amy' and it's an okay name.
― Anonymous User 8/30/2020
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A pretty unique name that isn't too out there. Cute meaning too.