Bollu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɒlu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bollu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 100Kas Billu(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 522Kas Billu
- ITItaly≈1 in 763Kas Billu
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bollu 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 named Billu, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est., as Billu
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Billu in PK Pakistan, MY Malaysia, IT Italy and 1 more.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bollu 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.
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Bollu 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 se, bowl, cup
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)
- Stoffel Bollub. 1987BEBelgian actor
- Lakshmi Reddy BolluUSresearcher
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 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 66 | #21,440 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Bollu?
- A machine transcription gives /bɒlu/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Bollu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Billu in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bollu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2,300 people in Pakistan have Billu as their first given name, about 1 in 100 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Bollu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bolluThe 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, “Bollu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.