Bilgili
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɪlɟilˈɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bilgili is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 6K(inferred from the name graph)
- MKNorth Macedonia≈1 in 13K
- FIFinland1 in 174K
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
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bilgili 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 | #686 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Bilgili | 74 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Bilgili | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Bilgili | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 59 | 1 in 293K | 59 | Bilgili | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 32 | 1 in 174K | 32 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 24 | 1 in 488K | 24 | Bilgili | 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mustafa Fevzi Bilgilib. 1863TRTurkish statesperson (1863–1944)
- Laz İsmail Efendib. 1873TRnot in their usual nameTurkish statesperson (1873–1954)
- Serdar Bilgilib. 1963TRTurkish businessperson (born 1963)
- Burak Bilgilib. 1974TRTurkish opera singer (born 1974)
- Bilgehan BilgiliTRTurkish botanist
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)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 59 | #27,788 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 32 | #32,809 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 24 | #42,555 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Bilgili?
- A machine transcription gives /bɪlɟilˈɪ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Bilgili have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Bilgili in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bilgili.
- How common is the name Bilgili?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 59 people named Bilgili in 2007, about 1 in 293 thousand residents.
- How common is Bilgili compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Bilgili is the 686th most common surname of 619,652 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/bilgiliThe 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, “Bilgili” — the 686th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.