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How popular is the name Bilal?
Births per year, rank history and how many Bilals are alive today.
Bilal (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 408th in 2025 with 99 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2006, when 190 babies were given the name, the 215th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 1998, with 163 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 482 in 2021 before climbing back to the 408th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Bilal you are most likely to meet is around 19 years old. Half of all Bilals born in England and Wales are between 12 and 28, and there are at least 5,100 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 1.7% chance that at least one of them will be called Bilal.
How many babies are named Bilal each year?
Where does Bilal rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Bilal most popular?
Bilal peaked in 2006, when 190 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Bilal?
At least 5,100 people named Bilal born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Bilal?
Most living Bilals are between 12 and 28; the most common age is about 19.
Is Bilal becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.