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Bridie

Girls' name

Diminutive of Bríd

Bridie has been given to 374 babies in the U.S. since 1909. 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 1918, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Bridie, 2024

1 in 418,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bridie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Bríd

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bridie means

Bridie is a diminutive of Bríd.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bridie is used in Irish.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Bridie → Bríd. The family’s meaning is “high, exalted”, recorded in Irish with the source elements Brigantī.

Origin, language, and formation

Bridie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bríd and Bridget.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 374 girls were recorded with the name Bridie between 1909 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,989 in 1909.

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 Bridie?

Bridie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bridie 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bridie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bridies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bridie was born before 1973 — so the typical Bridie is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
16.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
218
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1970s — 16.3% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Bridie 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 1918 (12)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,989
1909

Spellings of Bridie

Bridie is not the most common spelling — Bridget is, with 61.7% against Bridie's 0.25%.

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 Bridie is used

Across 1910–2025, Bridie was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Bridie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bridie around the world

Where Bridie 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,315
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1964–2021
    #883
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1956–2013
    #403
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bridie 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
#1,989
1909
Peak year
1918
12 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
374
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bridie

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

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Sibling names for Bridie

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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