Billal
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bijal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Billal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 16K
- FRFrance≈1 in 39K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, 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.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Billal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #237 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | listed | Billal | 32 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #846 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Billal | 18 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 1.8K | Billal | 165 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Billal | 23 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Billal | 12 |
| BH Bahrain | #168 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Billal | 5 |
| KW Kuwait | #837 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Billal | 6 |
| QA Qatar | #749 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Billal | 5 |
| US United States | — | 231 | 1 in 1.4M | 231 | Billal | 87 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the dz-kaggle-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
- Bilall Fallahb. 1986BEnot in their usual nameBelgian film director
- Billal Sebaihib. 1992FRFrench association football player
- Billal Bennamab. 1998FRFrench boxer
- Bilal Brahimib. 2000FRnot in their usual nameAlgerian and French footballer
- Billal Larachib. 2005DZbadminton player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.8K | #2,349 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 231 | #35,030 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 5 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 common is the name Billal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 231 people named Billal in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Billal compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Billal is the 237th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Billal?
- A machine transcription gives /bijal/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Billal a male or female name?
- Billal is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Billal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Billal in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled billal.
What do you want to know about Billal?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/billalThe 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, “Billal” — the 237th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.