Bilgin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name which means "pundit" (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/bilˈɟin/(recorded in a dictionary) Turkish · from Wiktionary
Bilgin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 6.1Kfew records
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈76,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Bilgin
- Turkish:/bilˈɟin/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name which means "pundit"
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bilgin is found
(measured from records)Bilgin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #134 | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Bilgin | 127 |
| FR France | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 290K | 52 | — | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | #540 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Bilgin | 13 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 1 | — | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 165 | 1 in 105K | 165 | Bilgin | 24 |
| BE Belgium | — | 130 | 1 in 90K | 197 | Bilgin | 18 |
| DK Denmark | — | 92 | 1 in 64K | 92 | — | — |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)Bilgin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Bilimsel bir konuda derin bilgisi olan, âlim.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)- İpek Bilginb. 1956TRTurkish actor (born 1956)
- Belçim Bilginb. 1983TRTurkish actor of Kurdish ancestry (born 1983)
- Emre Bilginb. 1992NLTurkish-Dutch association football player (born 1992)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bilgin mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name which means "pundit" Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bilgin?
- In Turkish /bilˈɟin/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bilgin?
- Mondonomo estimates about 76 thousand people named Bilgin in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bilgin. After it come France, Cyprus, Azerbaijan and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bilgin?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 165 people named Bilgin in 2007, about 1 in 105 thousand residents.
- How common is Bilgin compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Bilgin is the 134th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bilgin?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bilginThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Bilgin” — the 134th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.