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Bilal

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Gender Masculine
Usage Arabic, Turkish, Urdu
Scripts بلال(Arabic, Urdu)
Pronounced Pron. bee-LAL(Arabic)
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Note In Turkish this name is written with a dotted İ. It appears as BİLAL in uppercase and bilal in lowercase.

Meaning & History

Means "wetting, moistening" in Arabic. This was the name of a companion of the Prophet Muhammad.

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Last ranked #97 in 2013 Belgium
Last ranked #23 in 2021 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Last ranked #99 in 2011 Catalonia, Spain
Last ranked #482 in 2021 England and Wales
Last ranked #249 in 2021 France
Last ranked #192 in 2016 Italy
Last ranked #302 in 2022 Netherlands
Last ranked #169 in 2010 Spain (by decade)
Last ranked #96 in 2021 Turkey
Last ranked #953 in 2002 United States

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Eurovision 2019, The Wheel of Time characters, top 10 in Egypt, top 10 in Pakistan, water, wet
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Entry updated April 25, 2021

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