Bilğe
surname · Latin script
Bilğe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰏𐰀 (b²il²ga /bilge/, “wise”), from 𐰋𐰃𐰠 (b²il² /bil-/, “to know”) + 𐰏𐰀 (ga /-ge/). Compare bil- (“to know”).
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 6.3Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 57Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bilge in TR Türkiye, US United States, CY Cyprus and 2 more.
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)- Old Turkic𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰏𐰀b²il²ga /bilge/“wise”(measured from records)
- Old Turkic root𐰋𐰃𐰠b²il² /bil-/“to know”(measured from records)
From Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰏𐰀 (b²il²ga /bilge/, “wise”), from 𐰋𐰃𐰠 (b²il² /bil-/, “to know”) + 𐰏𐰀 (ga /-ge/). Compare bil- (“to know”). Fallen into disuse since the 15th century, but revived in 1935 in the campaign by the Türk Dil Kurumu to replace many loanwords by words with native Turkic roots.
Cited for this meaning 3
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bilğe 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 | #649 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Bilge | 113 |
| CY Cyprus | #597 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Bilge | 9 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 40 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 150 | 1 in 2.2M | 125 | Bilge | 105 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 36 | Bilge | 18 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 81K | 182 | Bilge | 14 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Bilğe mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰏𐰀 (b²il²ga /bilge/, “wise”), from 𐰋𐰃𐰠 (b²il² /bil-/, “to know”) + 𐰏𐰀 (ga /-ge/). Compare bil- (“to know”). Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 1 other source.
- In which country does Bilğe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Bilğe in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bilge.
- How common is the name Bilğe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 150 people named Bilğe in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Bilğe compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Bilğe is the 649th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bil%C4%9FeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Bilğe” — the 649th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.