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Brigit

Girls' name

High, exalted

Brigit has been given to 1,238 babies in the U.S. since 1954. 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 1976, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Brigit, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brigit: meaning, origin, and history

High, exalted

Proto-Celtic

What Brigit means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Brigit is used in Old Irish. Its origins include Proto-Celtic.

Brigit comes through Proto-Celtic *Brigantī.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bridget.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old Irish, Brigit is pronounced /ˈbʲɾʲi.ɣʲəd̠ʲ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,238 girls were recorded with the name Brigit between 1954 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 46 in 1976; its best national rank was #1,938 in 1976.

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 Brigit?

Brigit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brigit 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brigit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brigits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brigit was born before 1989 — so the typical Brigit is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
23.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,238
People you could plausibly meet
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1990s — 23.4% of all recorded uses (290).

Is Brigit 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1976 (46)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,938
1976

Spellings of Brigit

Brigit is not the most common spelling — Bridget is, with 79.8% against Brigit's 1.1%.

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 Brigit is used

Across 1910–2025, Brigit was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 468,751 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Brigit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brigit around the world

Where Brigit 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
    1997–1998
    #3,848
    in 1998
  • Canada
    1991–2011
    #3,211
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1949–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Brigit 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
#1,938
1976
Peak year
1976
46 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,238
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Brigit

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

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Sibling names for Brigit

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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