Meaning not yet researched.
Bilal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 167 in 2025. Its best rank was #954 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #954 in 2002; #1,212 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bilal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,212 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #954.
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Bilal: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 167 boys in 2025. Peak: #954 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 195 (2018).
In 2025, 167 US boys were named Bilal, making it the 1,212th most common boys’ name of the year, down 30 places from #1,182 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 175 boys named Bilal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #954, reached in 2002. The most boys given the name in a single year was 195, in 2018. For comparison, it was #1,217 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bilal in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 7 babies. In all, 5,863 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,580 babies named Bilal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,663 US boys were named Bilal; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 195. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,228 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bilal ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #449 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Belal, Billal and Bilaal are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Belal (708), Billal (142), Bilaal (125), Bilol (78).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bilal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 12 | #449 | #801 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #631 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #667 | #1,186 |
| Maryland | 6 | #715 | — |
| New York | 20 | #718 | #670 |
| Illinois | 10 | #810 | #904 |
| Missouri | 5 | #876 | — |
| California | 22 | #992 | #1,460 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,008 | #992 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,111 | #627 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,291 | #845 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,354 | #1,293 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,655 | #1,547 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 167 | #1,212 |
| 2024 | — | — | 175 | #1,182 |
| 2023 | — | — | 180 | #1,156 |
| 2022 | — | — | 166 | #1,200 |
| 2021 | — | — | 152 | #1,255 |
| 2020 | — | — | 141 | #1,288 |
| 2019 | — | — | 152 | #1,239 |
| 2018 | — | — | 195 | #1,040 |
| 2017 | — | — | 168 | #1,132 |
| 2016 | — | — | 167 | #1,149 |
| 2015 | — | — | 151 | #1,217 |
| 2014 | — | — | 149 | #1,225 |
| 2013 | — | — | 138 | #1,262 |
| 2012 | — | — | 155 | #1,173 |
| 2011 | — | — | 166 | #1,109 |
| 2010 | — | — | 139 | #1,258 |
| 2009 | — | — | 147 | #1,220 |
| 2008 | — | — | 139 | #1,253 |
| 2007 | — | — | 135 | #1,288 |
| 2006 | — | — | 124 | #1,322 |
| 2005 | — | — | 142 | #1,139 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,490 | 149 | #1,072 |
| 2003 | — | — | 146 | #1,060 |
| 2002 | — | — | 168 | #954 |
| 2001 | — | — | 136 | #1,060 |
| 2000 | — | — | 133 | #1,071 |
| 1999 | — | — | 116 | #1,130 |
| 1998 | — | — | 104 | #1,190 |
| 1997 | — | — | 127 | #1,006 |
| 1996 | — | — | 95 | #1,195 |
| 1995 | — | — | 103 | #1,126 |
| 1994 | — | — | 99 | #1,141 |
| 1993 | — | — | 97 | #1,144 |
| 1992 | — | — | 107 | #1,058 |
| 1991 | — | — | 119 | #981 |
| 1990 | — | — | 104 | #1,037 |
| 1989 | — | — | 100 | #1,030 |
| 1988 | — | — | 52 | #1,467 |
| 1987 | — | — | 57 | #1,295 |
| 1986 | — | — | 52 | #1,363 |
| 1985 | — | — | 40 | #1,596 |
| 1984 | — | — | 45 | #1,426 |
| 1983 | — | — | 41 | #1,492 |
| 1982 | — | — | 56 | #1,242 |
| 1981 | — | — | 47 | #1,378 |
| 1980 | — | — | 63 | #1,146 |
| 1979 | — | — | 51 | #1,292 |
| 1978 | — | — | 44 | #1,395 |
| 1977 | — | — | 46 | #1,335 |
| 1976 | — | — | 34 | #1,576 |
| 1975 | — | — | 25 | #1,891 |
| 1974 | — | — | 15 | #2,556 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,738 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,011 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,279 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,465 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,569 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,312 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).