Bilal
Last seen for girls in 2004 at #16,099 · #1,212 for boys in 2025, 167 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2002 · 168 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,858since 1964
Bilal over time
Rank among boys' names. Bilal has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,212 | 167 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,181 | 175 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,156 | 180 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,200 | 166 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,253 | 152 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,288 | 141 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,239 | 152 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,040 | 195 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,132 | 168 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,149 | 167 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,216 | 151 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,225 | 149 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,261 | 138 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,172 | 155 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,108 | 166 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,256 | 139 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,218 | 147 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,251 | 139 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,287 | 135 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,322 | 124 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,139 | 142 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #1,071 | 149 |
| 2003 | — | #1,060 | 146 | |
| 2002 | — | #954 | 168 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,059 | 136 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,070 | 133 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,130 | 116 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,189 | 104 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,006 | 127 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,195 | 95 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,126 | 103 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,140 | 99 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,144 | 97 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,058 | 107 | |
| 1991 | — | #981 | 119 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,037 | 104 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,030 | 100 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,467 | 52 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,295 | 57 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,363 | 52 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,594 | 40 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,422 | 45 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,490 | 41 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,242 | 56 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,373 | 47 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,145 | 63 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,291 | 51 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,393 | 44 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,335 | 46 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,572 | 34 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,884 | 25 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,549 | 15 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
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| 1964 | — | #3,282 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bilal! It came in at #3,282, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1965, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Bilal is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#397 · 1 in 4,598
- Pennsylvania#490 · 1 in 9,171
- New York#1,111 · 1 in 22,052
Best ever in a state: #286 in Minnesota, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #397 | 9 | 1 in 4,598 |
| Pennsylvania | #490 | 8 | 1 in 9,171 |
| New York | #1,111 | 5 | 1 in 22,052 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bilal
- 31 spots since 2024 (#1,181 → #1,212)
- 76 spots since 2020 (#1,288 → #1,212)
- 4 spots since 2015 (#1,216 → #1,212)
- Biggest jump: 105 spots in 2002 (#1,059 → #954)
- Biggest drop: 106 spots in 2003 (#954 → #1,060)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 2002 at #954 (168 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1991–2002
- Highest: 1 in 9,314 boys born in 2018 were named Bilal (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,228 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #954 in 2002, was only 1 in 11,557 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.0% of all boys named Bilal (1,580) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 18 | #3,282 (1964) | #3,741 |
| 1970s | 236 | #1,291 (1979) | #2,435 |
| 1980s | 553 | #1,030 (1989) | #1,342 |
| 1990s | 1,071 | #981 (1991) | #1,101 |
| 2000s | 1,419 | #954 (2002) | #1,143 |
| 2010s | 1,580 | #1,040 (2018) | #1,180 |
| 2020s | 981 | #1,156 (2023) | #1,215 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bilal in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
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1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 37,314 of them was named Bilal, which outranked 79.4% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,371Tavon45
- #1,371Valentino45
- #1,371Vinson45
- #1,393Bilal44
- #1,393Abelardo44
- #1,393Adolph44
- #1,393Caesar44
- #1,410Alain43
- #1,410Anders43
- #1,410Benton43
Tied with 16 names at #1,393; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.