Bilić
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Bilić is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Serbo-Croatian Bilić.
- HRCroatia1 in 804(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 2.8Kfew records
- RSSerbia≈1 in 17Kfew records
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- 1 in 804 (inferred from the name graph)
5,258 people, 2021
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bilic in DE Germany, AT Austria.
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 Serbo-Croatian Bilić.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bilić 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #48 | 5,258 | 1 in 804 | 5.3K | Bilić | 75 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #135 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Bilić | 16 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Bilic | 66 |
| RS Serbia | #930 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Bilić | 19 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Bilic | 34 |
| SI Slovenia | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Bilić | 5 |
5,258 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ana Bilićb. 1962ATAustrian writer, filmmaker, playwright and linguist of Croatian origin.
- Slaven Bilićb. 1968HRCroatian football manager and former player
- Danira Bilićb. 1969HRCroatian basketball player (born 1969)
- Ante Bilićb. 1983HRCroatian boxer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 5.3K | #43 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 4.8K | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Bilić mean, and where does it come from?
- From Serbo-Croatian Bilić. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Bilić have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Bilić, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bilić.
- Where is Bilić most common?
- Bilić is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 804 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bilić?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 5,258 people named Bilić in 2021, about 1 in 804 residents.
- How common is Bilić compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Bilić is the 48th most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bili%C4%87The 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, “Bilić” — the 48th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.