Bilhah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Bilhah plays a foundational role in the history of Israel as one of the four women who bore the twelve tribal patriarchs, illustrating the inclusion of handmaids in the covenantal family (Biblical Names Compiled Database)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Dominica, 2025
Bilhah is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Grenada.
- Grenada (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 2 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Bilhah plays a foundational role in the history of Israel as one of the four women who bore the twelve tribal patriarchs, illustrating the inclusion of handmaids in the covenantal family.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bilhah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| GD Grenada | — | 1 | — |
| DM Dominica | — | 1 | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | listed | — |
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: Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; the babynamen-king-2020 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Bilhah 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.
Timidity, bashfulness, or terror
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, A handmaid of Rachel and mother of Dan and Naphtali.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bilhah mean, and where does it come from?
- Bilhah plays a foundational role in the history of Israel as one of the four women who bore the twelve tribal patriarchs, illustrating the inclusion of handmaids in the covenantal family. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Bilhah a male or female name?
- Bilhah is a female 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.
- In which country does Bilhah have the most bearers?
- Bilhah is most frequently recorded in Grenada.
What do you want to know about Bilhah?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bilhahThe 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, “Bilhah” — ranked 132nd in Grenada (Grenada). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.