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Brigida

Girls' name

Form of Bridget

Brigida has been given to 660 babies in the U.S. since 1911. 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 1975, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Brigida, 2009

1 in 764,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brigida: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Bridget

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brigida means

Brigida is a form of Bridget.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Brigida is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbri.d͡ʒi.da/ for Brigida.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Brigida → Bridget. The family’s meaning is “the exalted one”, recorded in the naming reference for Bridget.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bridget.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Brigida is pronounced /ˈbri.d͡ʒi.da/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 660 girls were recorded with the name Brigida between 1911 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,991 in 1911.

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 Brigida?

Brigida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brigida 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 2009 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 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brigida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brigidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brigida was born before 1965 — so the typical Brigida is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
17.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
431
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 17.9% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Brigida 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (19)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,991
1911

Spellings of Brigida

Brigida is not the most common spelling — Brigid is, with 39.9% against Brigida's 4.0%.

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 Brigida is used

Across 1910–2025, Brigida was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 510,001 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Brigida has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brigida around the world

Where Brigida 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.

  • France
    1956–1978
    #2,323
    in 1978
  • South Australia
    1962–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Brigida 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
#1,991
1911
Peak year
1975
19 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
660
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Brigida

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

BriseidaBriceidaBrizeidaBridaBritainBriasiaBriyanaBrighidBriannyBrixleyBrilynnBriseisBritishBrixleeBrixtonBrienneBriyannaBrihanaBrigittaBrithanyBrihannaBrittonBriandaBrileigh

Sibling names for Brigida

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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