Brilliant**
#18,001 most common boys' name of all time · #46,969 across all names · 69% male / 31% female · used 2011–2025 · genuinely unisex
Rank among boys
#18,001
Rank overall
#46,969 of 105,966
First appeared
2011
Years on the list
8 of 146
All-time
67
Since 2016
55
Peak year
2022 #9,658
Best rank
#9,576 2023
Girls
Boys
peak 13/yr
Brilliant first appears in 2011. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.