Brillon
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Brillon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: voir Brion.
- BEBelgium1 in 293K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 792K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- 1 in 293K (inferred from the name graph)
420 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
voir Brion
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brillon counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 420 | 1 in 792K | 435 | Brillon | 37 |
| BE Belgium | 40 | 1 in 293K | 40 | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Brillon | 11 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | Brillon | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Brillon | 8 |
| PR Puerto Rico | — | — | — | Brillon | 2 |
| GT Guatemala | — | — | — | Brillon | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | — | — | Brillon | 1 |
420 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouyb. 1744FRFrench musician (1744-1824)
- Marcel Brillonb. 1909LULuxembourgish naturalist preparator and nature photographer
- Blanche Brillon Macdonaldb. 1931CACanadian politician (1931-1985)
- Monique Brillonb. 1949CAQuebec psychologist and essayist
- Yves BrillonFRFrench politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 435 | #51,662 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 420 | #49,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 395 | #49,869 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 40 | #30,607 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brillon mean, and where does it come from?
- voir Brion Recorded by Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- In which country does Brillon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 420 people named Brillon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brillon.
- Where is Brillon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Brillon is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 293 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Brillon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 420 people named Brillon in 2010, about 1 in 792 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brillon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.