Bilgen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bilgen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Bilgili, çok bilen.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 7K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 8K
- DEGermany≈1 in 173K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Bilgili, çok bilen.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bilgen 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 | #765 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Bilgen | 84 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Bilgen | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Bilgen | 50 |
| CY Cyprus | #399 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Bilgen | 8 |
| FR France | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 860K | listed | Bilgen | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 189K | — | Bilgen | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | Bilgen | 5 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Şerif Bilgenb. 1887TRTurkish statesperson (1887–1947)
- Samim Bilgenb. 1910TRTurkish attorney and musician (1910–2005)
- Süleyman Bilgenb. 1921TRTurkish statesperson (1921–2006)
- Üstün Bilgen-Reinartb. 1947TRTurkish-Canadian journalist and writer (born 1947)
- İbrahim Bilgenb. 1949TRTurkish social reformer (1949–2010)
- Mustafa Levent Bilgenb. 1966TRTurkish ambassador (born 1966)
- Ayhan Bilgenb. 1971TRTurkish journalist and writer (born 1971)
- Bülent Kaan Bilgenb. 1977TRTurkish association football player (born 1977)
- Anıl Bilgenb. 1989TRTurkish composer (born 1989)
- Osman BilgenTRTurkish writer
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 17 | #41,155 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Bilgen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Bilgili, çok bilen.
- In which country does Bilgen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Bilgen in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bilgen.
- How common is the name Bilgen?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 17 people named Bilgen in 2024, about 1 in 494 thousand residents.
- How common is Bilgen compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Bilgen is the 765th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bilgenThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bilgen” — the 765th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.