Updated June 9, 2019 Share: Family name origins & meanings English : patronymic from the personal name Bel(e) (see Beal 1) or a metronymic from a short form of the female personal name Isabel (see Isbell).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Beyle (see Belin) + German Sohn ‘son’.