Bülbül
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bylbyl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bülbül is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 6.2K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈48,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bulbul in PK Pakistan, AZ Azerbaijan and Bulbuli in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bülbül counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #197 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Bülbül | 72 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Bulbuli | 15 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 246K | listed | Bulbul | 13 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Bülbül | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 180K | 51 | Bülbül | 106 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 2 | Bulbul | 7 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Bülbül | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 191 | 1 in 90K | 191 | Bülbül | 10 |
| CY Cyprus | #651 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Bülbül | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bülbül is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Sesinin güzelliğiyle tanınan, Akdeniz ülkelerinde, orman ve bahçelerde yaşayan ötücü kuş. 2. Sesi çok güzel olan kimse.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yunus Bülbülb. 1955TRTurkish actor and singer (born 1955)
- Kemal Bülbülb. 1963TRTurkish educator and statesperson (born 1963)
- Süleyman Bülbülb. 1964TRTurkish statesperson (born 1964)
- Azer Bülbülb. 1967TRTurkish actor and singer (1967–2012)
- Kudret Bülbülb. 1970TRTurkish academic (born 1970)
- Muhammed Levent Bülbülb. 1980TRTurkish statesperson (born 1980)
- Samet Bülbülb. 1991TRTurkish association football player (born 1991)
- Çağrı Bülbülb. 1992TRTurkish association football player (born 1992)
- Eren Bülbül'ün ölümüb. 2002TRTurkish child assassinated by PKK
- Ali Turap Bülbülb. 2005TRTurkish association football player (born 2005)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 191 | #10,876 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bülbül mean, and where does it come from?
- nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bülbül?
- A machine transcription gives /bylbyl/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Bülbül have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Bülbül in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bülbül.
- How common is the name Bülbül?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 191 people named Bülbül in 2007, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.
- How common is Bülbül compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Bülbül is the 197th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bülbül” — the 197th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.