Bil
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bil is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: second-person singular imperative of bilmek.
- PLPoland1 in 12K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 41K
- BEBelgium1 in 67K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
3,170 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bil' in PL Poland and Bíl in CZ Czechia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
second-person singular imperative of bilmek
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bil counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 3,170 | 1 in 12K | 1.6K | Bil' | 73 |
| NL Netherlands | 424 | 1 in 41K | 424 | — | 7 |
| FR France | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 170K | 15 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 185 | 1 in 1.8M | 272 | — | 45 |
| BR Brazil | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 214 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 176 | 1 in 67K | 182 | — | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 98 | 1 in 109K | 98 | Bíl | 16 |
3,170 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling bil. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); MVČR — living population register 2017; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bil is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from as. bil 'sword'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In gem-pro, merciful, mild, gentle
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In qfa-yen-pro, to overtake
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Dutch, a buttock, usually used in the plural: billen, unless specified as left/right
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, a kind of sword or other bladed weapon, apparently having two edges
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bil Bairdb. 1904USAmerican puppeteer (1904-1987)
- Bil Keaneb. 1922USAmerican comic strip cartoonist (1922-2011)
- Czesław Bilb. 1928PLPolish military officer
- Bil Dwyerb. 1962USAmerican comedian and game show host
- Bil Aka Korab. 1971BFBurkinabé musician
- Bil Zelmanb. 1972USAmerican photographer and film director
- Bil Nsongob. 2004CMCameroonian footballer
- William M ClemonsUSnot in their usual nameAmerican structural biologist
- Jacek BilPLPolish cardiologist
- Iwona Bil-LulaPLPolish pharmaceutical scientist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.6K | #1,813 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.6K | #1,791 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 424 | #4,686 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 395 | #20,950 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 193 | #100,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 185 | #98,099 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 182 | #9,961 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 176 | #9,529 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 147 | #111,119 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 98 | #17,054 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bil mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular imperative of bilmek Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bil have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Bil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bil'.
- Where is Bil most common?
- Bil is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bil?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,170 people named Bil in 2026, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bil?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bilThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bil”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.