Bilğin
surname · Latin script
Bilğin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish بلمك (bilmek) or بیلمك (“to know, to understand, to recognize”), Proto-Turkic *bil- (“to know”), morphologically bil- + -gin.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 6.1Kfew records
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈76,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bilgin in TR Türkiye, NL Netherlands, BE Belgium and 1 more.
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 Ottoman Turkish بلمك (bilmek) or بیلمك (“to know, to understand, to recognize”), Proto-Turkic *bil- (“to know”), morphologically bil- + -gin.
Cited for this meaning 3
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bilğin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #134 | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Bilgin | 127 |
| FR France | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 290K | 52 | — | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | #540 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Bilgin | 13 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 1 | — | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 165 | 1 in 105K | 165 | Bilgin | 24 |
| BE Belgium | — | 130 | 1 in 90K | 197 | Bilgin | 18 |
| DK Denmark | — | 92 | 1 in 64K | 92 | — | — |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Bilğin mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish بلمك (bilmek) or بیلمك (“to know, to understand, to recognize”), Proto-Turkic *bil- (“to know”), morphologically bil- + -gin. Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Bilğin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 76 thousand people named Bilğin in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bilgin.
- How common is the name Bilğin?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 165 people named Bilğin in 2007, about 1 in 105 thousand residents.
- How common is Bilğin compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Bilğin is the 134th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bil%C4%9FinThe 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, “Bilğin” — the 134th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.