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Brigid

#2,784 in 2025Girls' name

High, exalted

Brigid has been given to 6,504 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #2,784 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 132 recorded.

Babies named Brigid, 2025

1 in 54,300

Brigid over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brigid: meaning, origin, and history

High, exalted

Irish

What Brigid means

Brigid means “high, exalted”, associated with Brigantī.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Irish Brighid, from Old Irish Brigit, from Proto-Celtic *Brigantī (“high, exalted”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Brigid (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Brigid is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Brigid comes through Irish Brighid, Old Irish Brigit and Proto-Celtic *Brigantī.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bridget.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Brigid is pronounced /ˈbɹɪ.d͡ʒɪd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,504 girls were recorded with the name Brigid between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 132 in 2000; its best national rank was #944 in 1965.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,420 in 2020 to #2,784 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,323 in 2015 to #2,784 in 2025.

How common is Brigid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 54,300
61 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 26,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,784
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brigid 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 37,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brigid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brigids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brigid was born before 1990 — so the typical Brigid is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
17.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,282
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 17.1% of all recorded uses (1,109).

Is Brigid 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
−112
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−364
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−461
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.2%
Peak was 2000 (132)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#944
1965

Spellings of Brigid

Brigid is the most-used spelling, taking 60.7% of the 10,707 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Brigid is used

Across 2016–2025, Brigid was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 29,779 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 12,500
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
  3. 3Virginia1 in 14,286
  4. 4New York1 in 16,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 20,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 33,333
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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.

Brigid around the world

Where Brigid 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1981–1981
    #537
    in 1981
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2025
    #334
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1964–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1946–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Brigid

People whose public names include Brigid, 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.

Brigid in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Brigid. Linked forms have their own page here.

BridgetRibinRībīnGrisod

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Brigid by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,784
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 364
Best rank ever
#944
1965
Peak year
2000
132 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,504
Count in 2025
61

Names similar to Brigid

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

BrileyBrittaBritanyBriarBrissaBridgidBrisaBrionnaBrindaBritnyBristolBrinleyBrinleeBrileeBriellaBrigetteBritniBrigitteBrianneBriandaBrittonBrittniBridgettBrienne

Names with a curve like Brigid

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

JoiKayleneMoiraAnnamariaBronwynAnnamarieRinaDariaRaeannElanaMyriamTamar

Sibling names for Brigid

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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