Bilici
surname · Latin script
Meaning: knowing, one who knows
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/biʎidʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bilici is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 62K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 73K
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
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
knowing, one who knows
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bilici 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 | #405 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Bilici | 78 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 211 | 1 in 82K | 211 | Bilici | 24 |
| BE Belgium | — | 190 | 1 in 62K | 309 | Bilici | 13 |
| FR France | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 402K | 29 | Bilici | 2 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 465K | — | Bilici | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 27 | 1 in 206K | 27 | Bilici | 7 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Bilici | 4 |
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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Bilici is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of bilīx
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, knowledgeable, well-versed
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Faruk Bilicib. 1948FRFrench historian
- Mevlüt Bilicib. 1961TRTurkish statesperson (born 1961)
- Abdülhamit Bilicib. 1970TRTurkish journalist (born 1970)
- Mücahit Bilicib. 1973TRTurkish-American sociologist (born 1973)
- Ahmet Bilicib. 1987TRTurkish wrestler (born 1987)
- Rahman Bilicib. 1989TRTurkish wrestler (born 1989)
- Erdal BiliciTRTurkish actor and cinematographer
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 309 | #5,511 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 211 | #9,878 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 190 | #8,836 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 29 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 27 | #39,521 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Bilici mean, and where does it come from?
- knowing, one who knows Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bilici?
- A machine transcription gives /biʎidʒi/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Bilici have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Bilici in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bilici.
- How common is the name Bilici?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 211 people named Bilici in 2007, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Bilici compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Bilici is the 405th 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/biliciThe 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, “Bilici” — the 405th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.