Bilal
About 5,863 American babies have been named Bilal since 1964, most of them around 2018. In 2025 it ranked 1,212th. About 5,700 Bilals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Bilal boys named Bilal
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,863
- Estimated living today
- 5,700
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 1,040th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,212th
- First recorded
- 1964
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 5,858
How old the living Bilals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,863 babies given the name since 1964, about 5,700 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 2,800 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
From Arabic بِلَال, specially Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Bilals
- Bilal ibn Ribah (581–642)companion of Muhammad and first Islamic mu'azzin (c.580–640)
- Bilal Hassani (born 1999)French-Moroccan singer, songwriter and vlogger
- Bilal El Khannouss (born 2004)Moroccan association football player
- Bilal Philips (born 1947)Canadian Muslim scholar and Salafist
- Bilal Ag Acherif (born 1977)Amazigh (Tuareg) nationalist leader
- Bilal Boutobba (born 1998)French and Algerian footballer
- Bilal Erdoğan (born 1981)Turkish businessman and politician
- Bilal Coulibaly (born 2004)French basketball player
People named Bilal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Bilal is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bilal is most concentrated in New Jersey (3.3×), Minnesota (3.0×), New York (2.3×), Virginia (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular boys’ names the year Bilal peaked:
Bilal elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Bilal +1 spelling | 15,555 | 105th |
| England and Wales boys | Bilal | 4,213 | 215th |
| Belgium boys | Bilal | 2,847 | 102nd |
| Italy boys | Bilal | 2,259 | — |
| Norway boys | Bilal | 560 | 203rd |
| Switzerland boys | Bilal | 352 | 383rd |
| Scotland boys | Bilal | 134 | 232nd |
| Ireland boys | Bilal | 64 | 429th |
| Poland boys | Bilal | 29 birth registrations | 411th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Bilal: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Bilal | 229 | 0.018% | 339th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Bilal | 121 | 0.028% | 163rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Bilal | 2 | 0.003% | 200th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Bilal is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.04% of children were given it – 42 of them.
Bilal: rank by region
In 2025, Bilal was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Bilal | 188 | 31 |
| Wallonia | Bilal | 267 | 10 |
| Brussels | Bilal | 104 | 11 |
In 2022, Bilal was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Bilal | 10 | 6 |
In 2023, Bilal was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Bilal | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Bilal was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Bilal | 312 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Bilal appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (104th), Province of Antwerp (120th), Province of East Flanders (179th) and Province of Hainaut (215th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Bilal by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 123 | 162nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Bilal among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Bilal | 2,400 | 2,546 |
| Finland boys | Bilal | 175 | 222 |
| Finland girls | Bilal | — | 19 |
| the Netherlands girls | Bilal | — | 8 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Bilal lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 9,666 men called Bilal were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Bilal | 298 | 7.070 | 25 |
| Melilla | Bilal | 303 | 6.923 | 16 |
| Almería | Bilal | 449 | 1.142 | 123 |
| Girona | Bilal | 442 | 1.062 | 140 |
| Tarragona | Bilal | 430 | 0.981 | 157 |
| Teruel | Bilal | 61 | 0.880 | 137 |
Listed in 51 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 1 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Bilal against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.