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Brigitta

#12,133 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Brigitta has been given to 551 babies in the U.S. since 1944. In 2025 it ranked #12,133 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Brigitta, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brigitta: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brigitta means

Brigitta is a given name.

The naming story behind Brigitta

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Brigitta in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 236.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Swed. Ger. Kelt. strength”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Brigitta, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 551 girls were recorded with the name Brigitta between 1944 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1962; its best national rank was #3,045 in 1962.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,526 in 2020 to #12,133 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,242 in 2015 to #12,133 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.

How common is Brigitta?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,133
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brigitta 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brigitta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brigittas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brigitta was born before 1983 — so the typical Brigitta is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
546
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Choose a decade

1960s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (123).

Is Brigitta 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,393
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,109
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.2%
Peak was 1962 (17)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,045
1962

Spellings of Brigitta

Brigitta is not the most common spelling — Brigitte is, with 42.3% against Brigitta's 2.5%.

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 Brigitta is used

Across 1910–2025, Brigitta was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,548,332 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 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. Brigitta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brigitta around the world

Where Brigitta 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
    1957–1962
    #1,604
    in 1962
  • Canada
    2000–2000
    #2,195
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1950–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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

Brigitta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,133
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,393
Best rank ever
#3,045
1962
Peak year
1962
17 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
551
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Brigitta

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

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Sibling names for Brigitta

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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