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Birgitte

Girls' name

English equivalent of Bridget

Birgitte has been given to 5 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 1959, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Birgitte, 1959

1 in 832,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Birgitte: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Bridget

Danish and Norwegian

What Birgitte means

Birgitte is a English equivalent of Bridget.

Origin, language, and formation

Birgitte is used in English, Danish and Norwegian. Its origins include Danish and Norwegian.

Birgitte comes through Danish Birgitte and Norwegian Birgitte.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bridget.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Birgitte between 1959 and 1959. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1959; its best national rank was #6,335 in 1959.

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 Birgitte?

Birgitte had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1959, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1959
1 in 832,000
5 of 4,157,642 births
Among girls only
1 in 405,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1959
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
576,373 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Birgitte 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 1959 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 576,373 children born in 1959 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Birgitte. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Birgittes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Birgitte was born before 1959 — so the typical Birgitte is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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1950s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Birgitte 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 1959 (5)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,335
1959

Spellings of Birgitte

Birgitte is not the most common spelling — Brigitte is, with 93.5% against Birgitte's 0.05%.

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.

Birgitte around the world

Where Birgitte 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
    1880–2016
    #502
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1960–1960
    #617
    in 1960

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

Birgitte 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
—
Best rank ever
#6,335
1959
Peak year
1959
5 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
1959
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Birgitte

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

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Sibling names for Birgitte

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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