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Bridgett

#8,450 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Bridgett has been given to 13,116 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #8,450 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 482 recorded.

Babies named Bridgett, 2025

1 in 276,000

Bridgett over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bridgett: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bridgett means

Bridgett is a given name.

The naming story behind Bridgett

Wikidata records Bridgett as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q93739996, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,116 girls were recorded with the name Bridgett between 1942 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 482 in 1970; its best national rank was #434 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,679 in 2020 to #8,450 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,609 in 2015 to #8,450 in 2025.

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.

How common is Bridgett?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,450
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bridgett 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 2025 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bridgett. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bridgetts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bridgett was born before 1977 — so the typical Bridgett is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
28.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
13,055
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 28.0% of all recorded uses (3,676).

Is Bridgett 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
+590
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,771
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,841
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.28×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.5%
Peak was 1970 (482)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#434
1973

Spellings of Bridgett

Bridgett is not the most common spelling — Bridget is, with 67.2% against Bridgett's 9.5%.

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 Bridgett is used

Across 1910–2025, Bridgett was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 14,416 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

020 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 5,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 5,263
  3. 3Georgia1 in 6,250
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 6,250
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 6,667
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 7,143
  7. 7Florida1 in 8,333
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 8,333

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. Bridgett has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bridgett around the world

Where Bridgett 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.

  • South Australia
    1961–2005
    #775
    in 2005

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

Notable people named Bridgett

People whose public names include Bridgett, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Bridgett by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,450
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,771
Best rank ever
#434
1973
Peak year
1970
482 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,116
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Bridgett

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

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Names with a curve like Bridgett

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Bridgett, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Bridgett

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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