Hílal
surname · Latin script
Hílal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 583 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: crescent, new moon.
- DKDenmark1 in 31K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 32K
- FIFinland1 in 164K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
583 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hilal in US United States.
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)crescent, new moon
Cited for this meaning 2
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Nordic Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hílal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 583 | 1 in 571K | 458 | Hilal | 19 |
| SE Sweden | 319 | 1 in 32K | 319 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 188 | 1 in 31K | 167 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 74 | 1 in 676K | 206 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 66 | 1 in 262K | 459 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | 34 | 1 in 164K | 61 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | 13 | 1 in 259K | 13 | — | — |
583 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hílal mean, and where does it come from?
- crescent, new moon Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names and Nordic Names.
- Which countries have the most people named Hílal?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 583 people named Hílal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hilal. After it come Sweden, Denmark, Spain and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Hílal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hílal is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 31 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hílal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 583 people named Hílal in 2020, about 1 in 571 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%ADlalThe 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, “Hílal” — ranked 18480th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.