Bila

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Bila is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. In Czech, recorded as inflection of bít:.

rarermore common
  • BYBelarus≈1 in 2.2Kas Белая(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 4Kas Біла
  • RURussia≈1 in 14Kas Белая

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 Bila 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.

Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)

≈11,000 named Біла, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
148 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BilaLatin(measured from records)
БелаяCyrillic(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Белая in RU Russia, BY Belarus, TW Taiwan, Біла in UA Ukraine, Belaya in LV Latvia and Belaja in MD Moldova.

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)

A barangay of Bauko, Mountain Province, Philippines.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

How Bila is read(measured from records)

Bila is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Ukrainian46%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Bila in Ukrainian.

  • Czech31%

    inflection of bít:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English18%

    A barangay of Bauko, Mountain Province, Philippines.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Polish8.1%

    billiard ball

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French6.6%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Bila in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bila 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 Bila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine#274≈11,000 est.≈1 in 4K—Біла36
RU Russia—≈10,000 est.≈1 in 14K—Белая148
BY Belarus#155≈4,300 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Белая20
CZ Czechia—2,1551 in 5K2.2KBila47
TW Taiwan—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 12K—Белая1
MD Moldova#446≈450 est.≈1 in 7.5K—Belaja4
LV Latvia—≈200 est.≈1 in 9.5K—Belaya3

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: MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Bila is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Nigeria, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bilá, Bîlä, Bîlã, Bîlâ, Bíla

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, South Africa, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Bíla, Bílá, Bïľä

  • Portuguese surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, South Africa, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Bilá, Bílá, Bíla, Bilã

  • Polish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Ukraine

    Also written Bilá, Bilà, Bílá, Bïlä, Bíla

  • French surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Congo - Kinshasa, South Africa

    Also written Bilā, Bilá, Bílá, Bîlã, Bïla

  • Indonesian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Bila', 'Bila, Bïla, Bilã

  • Turkish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Ukraine, Netherlands

    Also written Bilâ, Bilã, Bīlà, Bilá, Bílá

43 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)

Bila is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In mak, kind of small tree, of which two types are distinguished: 1. the _bila nikanre_, _Aegle marmelos_, with sweet edible fruits and much used in making hedges, and 2. the _bila paiʔ_, _Crescentia acuminata_, bitter _bila_, the fruits of which are inedible but which when hollowed out can be used to fetch and store water; the flesh of this fruit is used to remove rust from weapons

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In rob, short tree used to make hedges; it has large, round fruits that serve as cups in drinking water or palm wine: Aegle marmelos Correma; there is also another type with no fruits and a thorny stem

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In llu, stale, as long standing water in bottle; musty, of food; body smell; sediment in washing tapioca

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

  • Anna Bilab. 1975UAUkrainian poet (b. 1975)
  • Jedediah Bilab. 1979USAmerican television and radio host, columnist, and author

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 42 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Bila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—39#34,811
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—39#11,845

Reference works 7

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

Where does the name Bila come from?
A barangay of Bauko, Mountain Province, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Bila mean?
In Czech, inflection of bít:
What are other forms of the name Bila?
In the etymology graph, Bala and Balla are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Bila have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Біла in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Bila most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bila is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 5.0 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bila?
In Czechia, the national register counted 2,155 people named Bila, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
How common is Bila compared with other names?
In Ukraine, Bila is the 274th most common surname of 1,177,784 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, “Bila” — the 274th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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