Meaning not yet researched.
Bridget: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 385 in 2025. Its best rank was #112 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #112 in 1973; #724 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bridget in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#724 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #112.
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Bridget: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 385 girls in 2025. Peak: #112 in 1973 · most girls in one year: 2,763 (1973).
In 2025, 385 US girls were named Bridget, making it the 724th most common girls’ name of the year, down 18 places from #706 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 398 girls named Bridget in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #112, reached in 1973. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,763. For comparison, it was #534 in 2015 and #551 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bridget in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 35 babies with the name. In all, 92,517 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 18,936 babies named Bridget.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,000 US girls were named Bridget; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 509. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,175 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bridget ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #265 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bridgette (23,920 babies since 1880), Brigitte (9,165 babies since 1880), Brigid (6,504 babies since 1880) and Bridgett (13,116 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bridgit, Brigitta and Birgit are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Biddie, Biddy, Bridgie and Bridie.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English and Irish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bridgit (1,275), Brigitta (551), Birgit (280), Bridgitt (150), Bridge (140), Bridgetta (36), Bridgete (28).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 22 | #265 | #165 |
| New Jersey | 20 | #392 | #330 |
| Iowa | 8 | #399 | #532 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #413 | #434 |
| Utah | 9 | #446 | #372 |
| Kansas | 7 | #454 | #419 |
| Virginia | 16 | #490 | #377 |
| Michigan | 16 | #505 | #732 |
| Colorado | 11 | #505 | #484 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #511 | #367 |
| Washington | 13 | #518 | #525 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #598 | #401 |
| Missouri | 9 | #602 | #619 |
| New York | 27 | #611 | #409 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #636 | #636 |
| Oregon | 5 | #647 | #699 |
| Alabama | 6 | #731 | #831 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #738 | #606 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #756 | #954 |
| Illinois | 11 | #815 | #392 |
| Florida | 19 | #830 | #738 |
| Ohio | 10 | #897 | #577 |
| California | 31 | #914 | #611 |
| Texas | 30 | #955 | #704 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,070 | #985 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,100 | #778 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 385 | #724 | — | — |
| 2024 | 398 | #706 | — | — |
| 2023 | 376 | #750 | — | — |
| 2022 | 356 | #793 | — | — |
| 2021 | 396 | #722 | — | — |
| 2020 | 363 | #750 | — | — |
| 2019 | 385 | #733 | — | — |
| 2018 | 398 | #717 | — | — |
| 2017 | 434 | #676 | — | — |
| 2016 | 509 | #594 | — | — |
| 2015 | 583 | #534 | — | — |
| 2014 | 579 | #538 | — | — |
| 2013 | 565 | #529 | — | — |
| 2012 | 684 | #453 | — | — |
| 2011 | 630 | #470 | — | — |
| 2010 | 687 | #447 | — | — |
| 2009 | 753 | #424 | — | — |
| 2008 | 820 | #394 | — | — |
| 2007 | 909 | #357 | — | — |
| 2006 | 945 | #350 | — | — |
| 2005 | 971 | #329 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,035 | #309 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,029 | #301 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,076 | #288 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,156 | #274 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,167 | #274 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,292 | #246 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,287 | #237 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,281 | #235 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,530 | #192 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,469 | #201 | 8 | #6,472 |
| 1994 | 1,698 | #174 | 9 | #5,921 |
| 1993 | 1,629 | #179 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,414 | #201 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,447 | #207 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,548 | #191 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,635 | #174 | 8 | #5,696 |
| 1988 | 1,566 | #178 | 7 | #5,828 |
| 1987 | 1,540 | #180 | 7 | #5,540 |
| 1986 | 1,577 | #172 | 5 | #6,853 |
| 1985 | 1,613 | #173 | 13 | #3,429 |
| 1984 | 1,685 | #163 | 6 | #5,656 |
| 1983 | 1,748 | #162 | 8 | #4,559 |
| 1982 | 2,006 | #147 | 5 | #6,485 |
| 1981 | 1,899 | #150 | — | — |
| 1980 | 1,832 | #153 | — | — |
| 1979 | 1,736 | #161 | 5 | #6,162 |
| 1978 | 1,685 | #163 | 7 | #4,610 |
| 1977 | 1,643 | #165 | 5 | #5,948 |
| 1976 | 1,706 | #154 | 7 | #4,494 |
| 1975 | 1,862 | #143 | 9 | #3,689 |
| 1974 | 2,082 | #134 | 6 | #4,698 |
| 1973 | 2,763 | #112 | 7 | #4,109 |
| 1972 | 1,867 | #156 | 8 | #3,660 |
| 1971 | 1,711 | #181 | 6 | #4,448 |
| 1970 | 1,815 | #179 | 6 | #4,297 |
| 1969 | 1,597 | #197 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,454 | #208 | 8 | #3,134 |
| 1967 | 1,555 | #203 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,629 | #198 | — | — |
| 1965 | 1,543 | #213 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,480 | #225 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,448 | #228 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,407 | #227 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,211 | #254 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,151 | #265 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,052 | #272 | — | — |
| 1958 | 798 | #331 | — | — |
| 1957 | 627 | #362 | — | — |
| 1956 | 577 | #364 | — | — |
| 1955 | 583 | #362 | — | — |
| 1954 | 459 | #404 | — | — |
| 1953 | 526 | #371 | — | — |
| 1952 | 442 | #391 | — | — |
| 1951 | 274 | #495 | — | — |
| 1950 | 226 | #551 | — | — |
| 1949 | 220 | #561 | — | — |
| 1948 | 172 | #629 | — | — |
| 1947 | 161 | #658 | — | — |
| 1946 | 103 | #815 | — | — |
| 1945 | 93 | #773 | — | — |
| 1944 | 73 | #894 | — | — |
| 1943 | 69 | #944 | — | — |
| 1942 | 68 | #951 | — | — |
| 1941 | 87 | #773 | — | — |
| 1940 | 67 | #869 | — | — |
| 1939 | 54 | #962 | — | — |
| 1938 | 77 | #803 | — | — |
| 1937 | 50 | #994 | — | — |
| 1936 | 72 | #795 | — | — |
| 1935 | 65 | #856 | — | — |
| 1934 | 71 | #795 | — | — |
| 1933 | 60 | #866 | — | — |
| 1932 | 63 | #879 | — | — |
| 1931 | 78 | #758 | — | — |
| 1930 | 58 | #958 | — | — |
| 1929 | 81 | #777 | — | — |
| 1928 | 66 | #904 | — | — |
| 1927 | 67 | #913 | — | — |
| 1926 | 65 | #926 | — | — |
| 1925 | 66 | #914 | — | — |
| 1924 | 81 | #831 | — | — |
| 1923 | 60 | #955 | — | — |
| 1922 | 81 | #808 | — | — |
| 1921 | 78 | #840 | — | — |
| 1920 | 70 | #865 | — | — |
| 1919 | 84 | #765 | — | — |
| 1918 | 97 | #727 | — | — |
| 1917 | 72 | #813 | — | — |
| 1916 | 95 | #707 | — | — |
| 1915 | 95 | #676 | — | — |
| 1914 | 59 | #749 | — | — |
| 1913 | 48 | #759 | — | — |
| 1912 | 51 | #705 | — | — |
| 1911 | 31 | #778 | — | — |
| 1910 | 36 | #706 | — | — |
| 1909 | 46 | #567 | — | — |
| 1908 | 25 | #771 | — | — |
| 1907 | 33 | #653 | — | — |
| 1906 | 34 | #612 | — | — |
| 1905 | 32 | #622 | — | — |
| 1904 | 29 | #643 | — | — |
| 1903 | 22 | #713 | — | — |
| 1902 | 31 | #593 | — | — |
| 1901 | 34 | #521 | — | — |
| 1900 | 40 | #531 | — | — |
| 1899 | 22 | #666 | — | — |
| 1898 | 32 | #572 | — | — |
| 1897 | 47 | #426 | — | — |
| 1896 | 36 | #489 | — | — |
| 1895 | 31 | #531 | — | — |
| 1894 | 35 | #477 | — | — |
| 1893 | 41 | #424 | — | — |
| 1892 | 34 | #465 | — | — |
| 1891 | 34 | #431 | — | — |
| 1890 | 42 | #387 | — | — |
| 1889 | 30 | #442 | — | — |
| 1888 | 39 | #387 | — | — |
| 1887 | 34 | #367 | — | — |
| 1886 | 43 | #318 | — | — |
| 1885 | 38 | #329 | — | — |
| 1884 | 37 | #324 | — | — |
| 1883 | 28 | #337 | — | — |
| 1882 | 31 | #317 | — | — |
| 1881 | 34 | #275 | — | — |
| 1880 | 35 | #261 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).