Radiance
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- RAY-dee-ans
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Radiance is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “brightness, glowing light”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Radiance mean?
English: English word, from Latin radiare 'to shine'
“brightness, glowing light”
An English virtue-style word name meaning a warm, glowing brightness.
Is Radiance a girl's or a boy's name?
Radiance is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Radiance in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Radiance, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 1988, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 1982.
Half of all the girls named Radiance in the US since 1880 were born between 1991 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Radiance in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,096 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,192 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,307 |
| 1991 | 10 | #7,980 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,544 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,043 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,478 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,369 |
Nicknames for Radiance
- Rae 133 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Radiance
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Miracle, Blake, Riley, Sage, Marlowe, Annalise, Brielle, Savannah, Caroline, Ellie, Arielle, Madison
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Radiance: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/radiance, updated 20 October 2026.