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Brigita

Girls' name

High, exalted

Brigita has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1974, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Brigita, 2009

1 in 764,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brigita: meaning, origin, and history

High, exalted

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brigita means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Brigita is used in Czech, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbo-Croatian and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bridget.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Brigita is pronounced [ˈbrɪɡɪta].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 girls were recorded with the name Brigita between 1974 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1974; its best national rank was #7,792 in 1974.

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 Brigita?

Brigita 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 Brigita 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 Brigita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brigitas were born

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

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Brigita 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 1974 (6)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,792
1974

Spellings of Brigita

Brigita is not the most common spelling — Brigitte is, with 37.1% against Brigita's 0.07%.

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.

Brigita around the world

Where Brigita 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
    2006–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2009–2012
    #768
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1950–2003
    #739
    in 2003

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.

Brigita 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
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Best rank ever
#7,792
1974
Peak year
1974
6 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Brigita

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

BriellyBrisethBrianceBritaneBrinlieBridgerBrialleBrisleyBrishaeBristenBriajahBristinBrimleyBriaylaMwavitaBrightBritnyeBriyithBrinleiBrilliantBrieleeBrijidaBritianBrinnly

Sibling names for Brigita

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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