Bilski
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɪɫski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bilski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * From Bilsko (place name) + -ski * Variant of Bielski.
- PLPoland1 in 9.2K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 182K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 215K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,175 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
* From Bilsko (place name) + -ski * Variant of Bielski.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bilski 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #995 | 4,175 | 1 in 9.2K | 4.1K | Bilski | 81 |
| US United States | — | 1,222 | 1 in 272K | 1.3K | Bilski | 92 |
| FR France | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 354K | 21 | Bilski | 1 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Bilski | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 434K | — | Bilski | 31 |
| NO Norway | — | 30 | 1 in 182K | 30 | Bilski | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Bilski | 4 |
4,175 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kazimierz Bilskib. 1913GBPolish officer
- Dionizy Bilskib. 1936PLPolish surgeon
- Paweł Bilskib. 1950PLPolish physicist
- Arkadiusz Bilskib. 1973PLPolish footballer
- Janusz Bilskib. 1978PLPolish diplomat
- Niklas Bilskib. 1998DEGerman basketball player (born 1998)
- Marcin Bilskib. 2000PLPolish mathematician
- Rafał BilskiPLresearcher
- Pawel BilskiPLPolish physicist
- Mikołaj BilskiPLPolish researcher
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.1K | #498 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #18,965 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,522 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 44 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 44 | #54,453 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 31 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #35,566 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 26 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Bilski mean, and where does it come from?
- * From Bilsko (place name) + -ski * Variant of Bielski. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Bilski?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɪɫski/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bilski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Bilski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bilski.
- Where is Bilski most common?
- Bilski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bilski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,175 people named Bilski in 2026, about 1 in 9.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Bilski compared with other names?
- In Poland, Bilski is the 995th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bilskiThe 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, “Bilski” — the 995th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.