Bilal
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Arabic name from b-l-l, meaning 'moisture' or 'coolness'; also associated with the Prophet's muezzin Bilal
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/biɫˈaɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bilal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Algeria it is the 27th most common given name.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 531(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 575
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 748
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 323 (inferred from the name graph)
≈720,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Arabic name from b-l-l, meaning 'moisture' or 'coolness'; also associated with the Prophet's muezzin Bilal.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Bilal is read(measured from records)
Bilal is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Turkish56%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bilal in Turkish.
- Urdu10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bilal in Urdu.
- French7.4%
Arabic name from b-l-l, meaning 'moisture' or 'coolness'; also associated with the Prophet's muezzin Bilal.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bilal in English.
- Arabic5.9%
Name of Bilal ibn Rabah, early Muslim companion and muezzin.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Trustworthy
as a nameThe book of African names
water, moisture, freshness, river, sea
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
Bilal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈720,000 est. | ≈1 in 323 | listed | Bilal | 76 |
| TR Türkiye | #128 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 748 | — | Bilal | 127 |
| DZ Algeria | #27 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 531 | listed | Bilal | 65 |
| MA Morocco | #91 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 575 | — | Bilal | 90 |
| AF Afghanistan | #185 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 855 | — | Bilal | 22 |
| ES Spain | — | 9,666 | 1 in 5.2K | 9.7K | Bilal | 65 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Bilal is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Bilal är ett arabiskt namn med den ursprungliga betydelsen ’förfriskning, uppfriskande’. En känd namnbärare är Bilal ibn Ribah eller Bilal al-Habashi, den förste böne utroparen inom islam (född i Mecka i slutet av 500-talet).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
North Africa (Muslim): 'black man'
as a nameAfrican 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)
- Bilal ibn Rabahb. 581SYcompanion of Muhammad and first Islamic mu'azzin (c.580–640)
- Bilal Philipsb. 1947JMCanadian Muslim scholar and Salafist (born 1947)
- Bilal Ag Acherifb. 1977MLAmazigh (Tuareg) nationalist leader
- Bilal Erdoğanb. 1981TRTurkish businessman and politician (b. 1981)
- Bilal Mohammedb. 1986QAQatari footballer
- Balal Arezoub. 1988AFnot in their usual nameAfghan association football player
- Bilâl Çiloğlub. 1998TRTurkish judoka (born 1998)
- Bilal Hassanib. 1999FRFrench-Moroccan singer, songwriter and vlogger
- Bilal El Khannoussb. 2004BEMoroccan association football player
- Bilal Coulibalyb. 2004FRFrench basketball player (born 2004)
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 109 sources across 53 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9.7K | #558 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.7K | #310 |
Reference works 11
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Bilal?
- A machine transcription gives /biɫˈaɫ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Bilal mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic name from b-l-l, meaning 'moisture' or 'coolness'; also associated with the Prophet's muezzin Bilal. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Bilal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 724 thousand people named Bilal in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bilal.
- Is Bilal a male or female name?
- Bilal is a male 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.
- How common is the name Bilal?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9,666 people named Bilal, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Bilal compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Bilal is the 27th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bilalThe 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, “Bilal” — the 27th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.