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Birgit

Girls' name

High, exalted, through Birgitta

Birgit has been given to 280 babies in the U.S. since 1934. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1960, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Birgit, 1992

1 in 640,000

Birgit over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Birgit: meaning, origin, and history

High, exalted, through Birgitta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Birgit means

Birgit belongs to the name family reached through Birgit → Birgit → Birgitta → Brigit. Its meaning is “high, exalted”.

Origin, language, and formation

Birgit is used in Danish, Estonian, Faroese, German, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Birgitte, Birgitta, Birgit and Brigit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 280 girls were recorded with the name Birgit between 1934 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1960; its best national rank was #2,374 in 1960.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Birgit?

Birgit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992
1 in 640,000
6 of 3,839,369 births
Among girls only
1 in 307,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1992
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
443,542 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Birgit sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 443,542 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Birgit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Birgits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Birgit was born before 1965 — so the typical Birgit is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
65.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
275
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1960s — 65.4% of all recorded uses (183).

Is Birgit rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1960 (25)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,374
1960

Spellings of Birgit

Birgit is not the most common spelling — Virgie is, with 49.3% against Birgit's 0.63%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Birgit is used

Across 1910–2025, Birgit was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 696,208 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Birgit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Birgit around the world

Where Birgit ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1963–1966
    #1,980
    in 1966
  • Norway
    1880–2017
    #461
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1952–1973
    #695
    in 1973

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Birgit by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,374
1960
Peak year
1960
25 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
280
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Birgit

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BirdeeBirdiaBirdyBirkleyBirdellBirtieBirdaBirdenaBirkleeBirthaBirdellaMargitBirdiBirdBiruteBirgittaBirdieBrigitBirderBiridianaBirdineBirchieBirttanyBirta

Sibling names for Birgit

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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