# Bilal (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bilal/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Bill |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,863 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,858 / 5 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4,213, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic بِلَال (bilāl), specially Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | 16,490 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 166 | 1,109 |
| 2012 | 155 | 1,173 |
| 2013 | 138 | 1,262 |
| 2014 | 149 | 1,225 |
| 2015 | 151 | 1,217 |
| 2016 | 167 | 1,149 |
| 2017 | 168 | 1,132 |
| 2018 | 195 | 1,040 |
| 2019 | 152 | 1,239 |
| 2020 | 141 | 1,288 |
| 2021 | 152 | 1,255 |
| 2022 | 166 | 1,200 |
| 2023 | 180 | 1,156 |
| 2024 | 175 | 1,182 |
| 2025 | 167 | 1,212 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 146 | 305 |
| 2012 | 154 | 297 |
| 2013 | 133 | 320 |
| 2014 | 126 | 349 |
| 2015 | 140 | 334 |
| 2016 | 158 | 306 |
| 2017 | 128 | 364 |
| 2018 | 125 | 360 |
| 2019 | 121 | 364 |
| 2020 | 103 | 400 |
| 2021 | 83 | 482 |
| 2022 | 84 | 472 |
| 2023 | 91 | 431 |
| 2024 | 97 | 414 |
| 2025 | 99 | 408 |

## People named Bilal

- Bilal ibn Ribah, companion of Muhammad and first Islamic mu'azzin (c.580–640)
- Bilal Hassani, French-Moroccan singer, songwriter and vlogger
- Bilal Philips, Canadian Muslim scholar and Salafist (born 1947)
- Bilal Ag Acherif, Amazigh (Tuareg) nationalist leader
- Bilal Boutobba, French and Algerian footballer
- Bilal Coulibaly, French basketball player (born 2004)
- Bilal Ould-Chikh, Dutch footballer
- Bilal Tabti, Algerian athletics competitor
- Bilal Nadir, French footballer (born 2003)
- Bilal Xhaferri, Albanian writer, journalist (1935–1986)
- Bill Hamid, American soccer player
- Balal Arezou, Afghan association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.