Bluebeard

Bluebeard - French folktale version by Charles Perrault. This book is the 242^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 401^st most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Bluebeard” in English Wikipedia has 81.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 86 references and 21 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.3 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Bluebeard” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Bluebeard”, its content was written by 409 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1450 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Bluebeard is on the 401^st place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 242^nd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 252 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1286 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7919 in November 2023
• Global: #10158 in April 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8170 in January 2016
• Global: #4752 in January 2016

There are 37 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Bluebeard		81.6422
2	German (de) Blaubart		56.2405
3	Spanish (es) Barba Azul		52.6617
4	Vietnamese (vi) Lão râu xanh		50.2825
5	French (fr) La Barbe bleue		49.8096
6	Greek (el) Κυανοπώγων		35.4827
7	Min Nan (zhminnan) Lâm-sek hô͘-chhiu		30.344
8	Serbian (sr) Плавобради		29.0041
9	Catalan (ca) Barbablava		26.7562
10	Italian (it) Barbablù		26.3667

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bluebeard" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bluebeard		6 681 986
2	French (fr) La Barbe bleue		2 708 842
3	Japanese (ja) 青ひげ		1 848 965
4	Russian (ru) Синяя Борода		1 520 536
5	Spanish (es) Barba Azul		1 335 865
6	German (de) Blaubart		1 041 515
7	Chinese (zh) 藍鬍子		742 824
8	Italian (it) Barbablù		663 667
9	Portuguese (pt) Barba Azul		498 021
10	Dutch (nl) Blauwbaard		235 039

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bluebeard" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bluebeard		20 325
2	French (fr) La Barbe bleue		5 786
3	Russian (ru) Синяя Борода		4 287
4	Japanese (ja) 青ひげ		3 537
5	Spanish (es) Barba Azul		3 439
6	Italian (it) Barbablù		2 925
7	German (de) Blaubart		2 898
8	Chinese (zh) 藍鬍子		1 734
9	Portuguese (pt) Barba Azul		1 151
10	Dutch (nl) Blauwbaard		560

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Bluebeard" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bluebeard		409
2	French (fr) La Barbe bleue		238
3	German (de) Blaubart		140
4	Italian (it) Barbablù		78
5	Spanish (es) Barba Azul		71
6	Dutch (nl) Blauwbaard		65
7	Russian (ru) Синяя Борода		63
8	Japanese (ja) 青ひげ		40
9	Hebrew (he) כחול הזקן		34
10	Chinese (zh) 藍鬍子		33

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Bluebeard" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bluebeard		2
2	Arabic (ar) اللحية الزرقاء		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) Синята брада		1
4	Catalan (ca) Barbablava		1
5	Greek (el) Κυανοπώγων		1
6	Estonian (et) Sinihabe		1
7	French (fr) La Barbe bleue		1
8	Polish (pl) Sinobrody		1
9	Vietnamese (vi) Lão râu xanh		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Mavi saqqal		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Bluebeard" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Bluebeard		252
2	French (fr) La Barbe bleue		212
3	German (de) Blaubart		127
4	Russian (ru) Синяя Борода		92
5	Japanese (ja) 青ひげ		74
6	Italian (it) Barbablù		64
7	Spanish (es) Barba Azul		60
8	Dutch (nl) Blauwbaard		46
9	Persian (fa) ریش‌آبی		35
10	Portuguese (pt) Barba Azul		34

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic اللحية الزرقاء
az	Azerbaijani Mavi saqqal
bg	Bulgarian Синята брада
ca	Catalan Barbablava
cs	Czech Modrovous
de	German Blaubart
el	Greek Κυανοπώγων
en	English Bluebeard
eo	Esperanto Blubarbo
es	Spanish Barba Azul
et	Estonian Sinihabe
eu	Basque Bizar Urdin
fa	Persian ریش‌آبی
fi	Finnish Ritari Siniparta
fr	French La Barbe bleue
gl	Galician Barba Azul
he	Hebrew כחול הזקן
hy	Armenian Կապույտ մորուքը
id	Indonesian Janggut Biru
it	Italian Barbablù
ja	Japanese 青ひげ
ka	Georgian ლურჯწვერა
ko	Korean 푸른 수염
nl	Dutch Blauwbaard
pl	Polish Sinobrody
pt	Portuguese Barba Azul
ro	Romanian Barbă albastră (poveste)
ru	Russian Синяя Борода
simple	Simple English Bluebeard
sr	Serbian Плавобради
sv	Swedish Blåskägg
tr	Turkish Mavi Sakal (masal)
uk	Ukrainian Синя Борода
ur	Urdu بلیو بیئرڈ
vi	Vietnamese Lão râu xanh
zh	Chinese 藍鬍子
zhminnan	Min Nan Lâm-sek hô͘-chhiu

Best Rank

English: #8170 01.2016

Global: #4752 01.2016

Best Rank

English: #7919 11.2023

Global: #10158 04.2018

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