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Birgitta

Girls' name

High, exalted, through Brigit

Birgitta has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 1959. 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 1961, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Birgitta, 1991

1 in 779,000

Birgitta 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Birgitta: meaning, origin, and history

High, exalted, through Brigit

Swedish

What Birgitta means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Birgitta is used in Estonian, Faroese, Finnish and Swedish. Its origins include Swedish.

Birgitta comes through Old Irish Brigit and Swedish Birgitta.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bridget and Brigit.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Birgitta is pronounced /ˈbirɡitːɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 85 girls were recorded with the name Birgitta between 1959 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1961; its best national rank was #3,804 in 1961.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Birgitta?

Birgitta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991
1 in 779,000
5 of 3,892,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 375,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1991
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
539,676 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Birgitta 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 1991 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 539,676 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Birgitta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Birgittas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Birgitta was born before 1966 — so the typical Birgitta is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
74.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
85
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 74.1% of all recorded uses (63).

Is Birgitta 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 1961 (12)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
53.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,804
1961

Spellings of Birgitta

Birgitta is not the most common spelling — Britta is, with 85.3% against Birgitta's 2.0%.

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.

Birgitta around the world

Where Birgitta 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.

  • Norway
    1880–1984
    #679
    in 1984
  • South Australia
    1970–1970
    #475
    in 1970

Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Birgitta 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
#3,804
1961
Peak year
1961
12 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
85
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Birgitta

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

BirkleyBirttanyBirdeeBirkleeBirdellaBirdenaLunettaBirdyMarittaBirklynnRuthettaRickettaVonnettaChanettaRoberttaTonyettaCosettaLagrettaShakettaMarkittaConsettaDarlettaDonyettaDanyetta

Sibling names for Birgitta

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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