Bíl
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bíl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From a Ukrainian or Czech descendant of Proto-Slavic *bělъ (“white”). Alternatively, from dialectal Polish bil (“salo”).
- PLPoland1 in 12K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 41K
- BEBelgium1 in 67K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
3,170 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bil' in PL Poland.
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)
From a Ukrainian or Czech descendant of Proto-Slavic *bělъ (“white”). Alternatively, from dialectal Polish bil (“salo”).
Sources 5
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bíl 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 | 3,170 | 1 in 12K | 1.6K | Bil' | 73 |
| NL Netherlands | 424 | 1 in 41K | 424 | — | 7 |
| FR France | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 170K | 15 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 185 | 1 in 1.8M | 272 | — | 45 |
| BR Brazil | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 214 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 176 | 1 in 67K | 182 | — | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 98 | 1 in 109K | 98 | Bíl | 16 |
3,170 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling bil. 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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 28 | #43,296 |
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 Bíl mean, and where does it come from?
- From a Ukrainian or Czech descendant of Proto-Slavic *bělъ (“white”). Alternatively, from dialectal Polish bil (“salo”). Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Bíl have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Bíl, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bil'.
- Where is Bíl most common?
- Bíl is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bíl?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,170 people named Bíl in 2026, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%ADlThe 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, “Bíl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.