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Brigitte

#2,864 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Bridget

Brigitte has been given to 9,165 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #2,864 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 314 recorded.

Babies named Brigitte, 2025

1 in 56,200

Brigitte over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brigitte: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Bridget

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brigitte means

Brigitte is a form of Bridget.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Brigitte is used in French and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bridget.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Brigitte is pronounced /bʁi.ʒit/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,165 girls were recorded with the name Brigitte between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 314 in 1960; its best national rank was #550 in 1960.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,978 in 2020 to #2,864 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,647 in 2015 to #2,864 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Brigitte?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 56,200
59 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 27,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,864
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brigitte 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 38,949 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brigitte. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brigittes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brigitte was born before 1981 — so the typical Brigitte is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,139
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Choose a decade

1960s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (2,531).

Is Brigitte 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
−494
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+114
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,217
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.8%
Peak was 1960 (314)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#550
1960

Spellings of Brigitte

Brigitte is not the most common spelling — Bridgette is, with 58.0% against Brigitte's 22.2%.

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 Brigitte is used

Across 2016–2025, Brigitte was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 22,646 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 16,667
  2. 2New York1 in 16,667
  3. 3Texas1 in 16,667
  4. 4California1 in 20,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 20,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 33,333
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 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.

Brigitte around the world

Where Brigitte 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
    1998–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • France
    1900–2024
    #7,258
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1949–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Brigitte

People whose public names include Brigitte, 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.

Brigitte in other languages

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

BirgitBridgetBrigidaBrigitaBirgittaBirgitteBrigittaPirjoPirkkoBirgiteBirgittBrygidaBríxidaPirittaBrec'hed

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

Brigitte by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,864
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 114
Best rank ever
#550
1960
Peak year
1960
314 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,165
Count in 2025
59

Names similar to Brigitte

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

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Names with a curve like Brigitte

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

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Sibling names for Brigitte

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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