Hilal
given name · Latin script
Meaning: crescent moon
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/çiʎaɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hilal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 753(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 9.5K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 4.1K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 753 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
crescent moon
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hilal 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 | #246 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 753 | — | Hilal | 111 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 105 | — | 9 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Hilal | 7 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 990 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | 289 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 583 | 1 in 571K | 458 | Hilal | 97 |
| CY Cyprus | #546 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Hilal | 12 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
Hilal is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, crescent, new moon. .,a J3 UaYl Ge do slius gals wi aialy. "They ask you, (0 Muhammad), of new moons. Say: They are but signs to mark fixed periods of time for mankind and for the Hajj." (surat al-Bagarah 2:189). Hilal bin Harith: a sahaabi
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Polish, crescent (representation of crescent used as a symbol of Islam)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Of or pertaining to a hilum.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, crescent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ale, to read
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)
- Muhammad al-Awsat ibn Alib. 635SAnot in their usual nameson of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib
- Hilal al-Sabi'b. 969TRArab historian, bureaucrat and writer (c.969–1056)
- Hilal Mammadovb. 1959AZAzerbaijani journalist
- Hilal Hilalb. 1966SYSyrian politician
- Hilal Saralb. 1971TRTurkish film director (born 1971)
- Hillal Soudanib. 1987DZnot in their usual nameAlgerian association football player
- Hilal Baydarovb. 1987AZAzerbaijan film director
- Hilal Altınbilekb. 1991TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1991)
- Hilal El-Helweb. 1994LBLebanese association football player
- Hilal UysunTRTurkish actor
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 67 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 990 | #2,706 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 330 | #18,480 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 289 | #678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 253 | #18,480 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 105 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 10 | #1,820 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 6 | #710 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 1 | #2,529 |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Hilal?
- A machine transcription gives /çiʎaɫ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Hilal mean, and where does it come from?
- crescent moon Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Hilal a male or female name?
- Hilal is a female 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 Hilal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 109 thousand people named Hilal in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hilal.
- How common is the name Hilal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 583 people named Hilal in 2020, about 1 in 571 thousand residents.
- How common is Hilal compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Hilal is the 246th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hilal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hilalThe 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, “Hilal” — the 246th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.