Brilliant — boys' name

What the Data Says About Brilliant

The Social Security Administration has registered 40 babies named Brilliant between 2011 and 2023, spanning 13 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brilliant currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Brilliant is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 16 additional births since 2019.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brilliant performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 28 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Brilliant shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brilliant in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 40 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.