Bilal

Where Bilal comes from

From Arabic بِلَال (bilāl), specially Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ.
— Wiktionary's entry for Bilal
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 581
    Bilal ibn Ribah born
    companion of Muhammad and first Islamic mu'azzin
  2. 1964
    First appearance
    #3,282 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1999
    Bilal Hassani born
    French-Moroccan singer, songwriter and vlogger
  4. 2002
    Peak, #954
    168 babies named Bilal — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Bilal ibn Ribah · companion of Muhammad and first Islamic mu'azzin, 581–642
  • Bilal Hassani · French-Moroccan singer, songwriter and vlogger, born 1999
  • Bilal El Khannouss · Moroccan association football player, born 2004
  • Bilal Philips · Canadian Muslim scholar and Salafist, born 1947
  • Bilal Ag Acherif · Amazigh (Tuareg) nationalist leader, born 1977

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.