Bilal

What Bilal means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Bilal yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #408 vs #1,212 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Bilal?

US: Steady: #1216 in 2015, #1212 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #334 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2018, when 195 boys got the name (#1040 that year). First in the US records in 1964.

How common

• About 1 in 10,228 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,747 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MN (0.49 per 1,000 boys), MA (0.26 per 1,000 boys), MD (0.26 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Bilal is #1212 in the US and #408 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Bilal were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Belal11 US · 5 E&W
• Bilol10 US
• Bilaal0 US · 6 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Bilal

Boys

• Ali#306“high, exalted”^*
• Zayd#632Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #181 vs #632 in 2025
• Laith#893Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #254 vs #893 in 2025
• Amir#105“commander, prince”^*
• Isa#929Diminutive of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Mustafa#760“the chosen one”^*

For a sister

• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Noor#659“light”^*
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Alia#587Feminine form of Ali, meaning “high, exalted”^*
• Amina#315“faithful, trustworthy”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Bilal’s. Rank is US 2025.