Bilyi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɪɫji/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bilyi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 4.9Kas Білий(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 486Kas Билый
- PLPoland1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bilyi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- 1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,000 named Білий, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Билый in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, CN China, Білий in UA Ukraine and Bilyy in ES Spain.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bilyi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #423 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Білий | 38 |
| PL Poland | — | 836 | 1 in 46K | 836 | Bilyi | 17 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 486K | — | Билый | 90 |
| CN China | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Билый | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 39 | 1 in 1.3M | 39 | Bilyy | 12 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 766K | — | Билый | 17 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 140K | listed | Bilyi | 2 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Bilyi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Beloi.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Sydir Bilyib. 1716UAUkrainian Cossack
- Mykhailo Bilyib. 1922UAUkrainian and Soviet politician (1922–2001)
- Vladimir Ivanovic Belyib. 1938UAnot in their usual nameD.Phil. Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 1963
- Oleksii Bilyib. 1961UAUkrainian politician
- Oleksandr Bilyib. 1981UAUkrainian association football player
- Ivan Bilyib. 1988UAUkrainian footballer
- Maksym Bilyib. 1989UAUkrainian footballer (1989-2013)
- Maksym Bilyib. 1990UAUkrainian association football player (born 1990)
- Oleh Bilyib. 1993UAUkrainian association football player
- Marko Bilyib. 1997UAUkrainian association football coach
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 836 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 836 | #3,704 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 39 | #53,546 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 39 | #52,638 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Bilyi?
- A machine transcription gives /bɪɫji/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Bilyi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.0 thousand people named Білий in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bilyi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bilyi is densest in Poland — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bilyi?
- In Poland, the national register counted 836 people named Bilyi in 2026, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
- How common is Bilyi compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Bilyi is the 423rd most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bilyi?
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/bilyiThe 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, “Bilyi” — the 423rd most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.