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Brighid

#13,486 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Brigit

Brighid has been given to 530 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #13,486 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Brighid, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brighid: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Brigit

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brighid means

Brighid is a form of Brigit.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Brighid is used in Irish and Irish Mythology.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbʲɾʲiːdʲ/ for Brighid.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Brigit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 530 girls were recorded with the name Brighid between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2004; its best national rank was #4,823 in 1991.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,273 in 2015 to #13,486 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Brighid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,486
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brighid 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brighid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brighids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brighid was born before 1999 — so the typical Brighid is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
530
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Choose a decade

1990s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (156).

Is Brighid 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
+282
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,213
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.0%
Peak was 2004 (25)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,823
1991

Spellings of Brighid

Brighid is not the most common spelling — Brigid is, with 72.8% against Brighid's 5.9%.

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 Brighid is used

Across 1910–2025, Brighid was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,029,776 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in —
  2. 2New 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. Brighid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brighid around the world

Where Brighid 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.

  • Ireland
    1964–1982
    #523
    in 1982
  • South Australia
    1960–1992
    #704
    in 1992

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

Brighid by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,486
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,823
1991
Peak year
2004
25 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
530
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Brighid

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

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Sibling names for Brighid

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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