Bilgiç

surname · Latin script

Meaning: smartass, know-all

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bilgiç is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 85K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 321K

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)

≈37,000 people, est.

Sources
92 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Bilgic in DE Germany, FR France, NL Netherlands and 1 more.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

smartass, know-all

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bilgiç 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.

Where Bilgiç is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#261≈37,000 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Bilgiç65
DE Germany—≈950 est.≈1 in 85K—Bilgic79
MK North Macedonia—≈260 est.≈1 in 8.3K—Bilgiç2
BG Bulgaria—≈240 est.≈1 in 29K—Bilgiç3
FR France—≈210 est.≈1 in 321K45Bilgic92
AT Austria—≈160 est.≈1 in 56K—Bilgic12
NL Netherlands—1491 in 116K149Bilgic14
CY Cyprus#892≈64 est.≈1 in 20K—Bilgiç6

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). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bilgiç is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Argentina, Netherlands

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bilgic, Bilğiç

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bilgic

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Bilgic

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Bilgic

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Bilgic

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Bilgic

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bilgiç 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. Bilgili kimse, her şeyi bilen, anlayan. 2. Bilmediği hâlde bilir gibi görünen, bilgili geçinen.

    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)

1900195020002050Eşref Bilgiç, b. 1908Sadettin Bilgiç, b. 1920Şükrü Bilgiç, b. 1947Süreyya Sadi Bilgiç, b. 1961Abdurrahman Bilgiç, b. 1963Taner Bilgiç, b. 1965Tahir Bilgiç, b. 1970Esra Bilgiç, b. 1992Pelin Bilgiç, b. 1994Dilara Bilgiç, b. 2002

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Bilgiç
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007149#13,629

Reference works 3

  • 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)

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 Bilgiç mean, and where does it come from?
smartass, know-all Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Bilgiç have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Bilgiç in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bilgiç.
How common is the name Bilgiç?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 149 people named Bilgiç in 2007, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.
How common is Bilgiç compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Bilgiç is the 261st 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, “Bilgiç” — the 261st most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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