girls:
5 births since 2004
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
5.5k births since 1964
#1603 (65th percentile)
overall:
5.5k births since 1964
#3665 (53rd percentile)
The name Bilal is the #3,665 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,519 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 52.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,603 (65.0% percentile) for all time with 5,514 births since 1964. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2004.
Bilal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for boys and 2004 for girls). Birth data for Bilal is available in 56 out of the 60 years between 1964 and 2023 (56 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Bilal has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Bilal reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 20.8% percentile (ranked #723) with 100 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 100 births per million (ranked 20.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Bilal is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #738 (19.0% percentile) with 97 births per million.
For girls, Bilal reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #937) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bilal".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Bilal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Bilal is pronounced as bih-LAHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bee-LAHL, at 11.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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