Bilqis
given name · Latin script
Meaning: In the New Testament, she is cited as the 'Queen of the South' who serves as a witness against the unbelieving generation of Jesus' time; in Ethiopian Orthodoxy, she is the matriarch of the Solomonic
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɪɫciz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bilqis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 8.7Kas Bilkis(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 45Kas Bilkis
- USUnited States1 in 942Kas Bilkis
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bilqis itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 named Bilkis, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, 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 Bilkis in BD Bangladesh, US United States, NG Nigeria 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)
In the New Testament, she is cited as the 'Queen of the South' who serves as a witness against the unbelieving generation of Jesus' time; in Ethiopian Orthodoxy, she is the matriarch of the Solomonic dynasty and the Ark of the Covenant's guardian.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bilqis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #273 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | listed | Bilkis | 49 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | listed | Bilkis | 48 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Bilkis | 31 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Bilqis | 2 |
| US United States | — | 353as Bilkis | 1 in 942K | 351 | Bilkis | 109 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Bilkis | 1 |
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; the id-github-names register. 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)
Bilqis is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
The name 'Bilqis' is of uncertain origin, possibly derived from the Hebrew 'pilegesh' (concubine) or Greek 'pallakis'; 'Makeda' is the Ethiopic name, potentially meaning 'pillow' or 'greatness'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
queen of saba, wife of
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Beautiful, the
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Arabic, queen of Saba, known as Bilqis in Arabian tradition
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Bilqis Prasistab. 2003IDIndonesian badminton player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 154 | #44,359 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #44,359 |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Bilqis mean, and where does it come from?
- In the New Testament, she is cited as the 'Queen of the South' who serves as a witness against the unbelieving generation of Jesus' time; in Ethiopian Orthodoxy, she is the matriarch of the Solomonic… Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Bilqis?
- A machine transcription gives /bɪɫciz/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Bilqis a male or female name?
- Bilqis is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Bilqis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Bilkis in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bilqis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 353 people named Bilkis in 2020, about 1 in 942 thousand residents.
- How common is Bilqis compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Bilqis is the 273rd most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bilqis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bilqisThe 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, “Bilqis” — the 273rd most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.