Bilal

“Moistening; dew (Arabic) — borne by Islam's first muezzin” — Arabic origin

Boy's name · #1212 in the US (2025) · 2020s

Bilal reached its best rank, #954, in 2002 and ranked #1212 in 2025. About 5,900 boys have carried it since 1964. Its center of gravity has moved: strongest in the Northeast in the 1960s and 1970s, strongest in the Midwest today.

Around the world: #17 in Bosnia (FBiH) (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 15 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Bilals

Bilal ibn Ribah — companion of Muhammad and first Islamic mu'azzin (c.580–640)
Bilal Hassani — French-Moroccan singer, songwriter and vlogger
Bilal El Khannouss — Moroccan association football player
Bilal Philips — Canadian Muslim scholar and Salafist (born 1947)
Bilal Ag Acherif — Amazigh (Tuareg) nationalist leader

What Bilals become

Among 325 notable people named Bilal:

Sports figures appear 2.28× more often than among typical names — e.g. Bilal El Khannouss, Moroccan association football player.

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