Meaning not yet researched.
Bridgette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 88 in 2025. Its best rank was #356 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #356 in 1973; #2,125 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bridgette in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,125 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #356.
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Bridgette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 88 girls in 2025. Peak: #356 in 1973 · most girls in one year: 630 (1970).
In 2025, 88 US girls were named Bridgette, making it the 2,125th most common girls’ name of the year, up 111 places from #2,236 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 84 girls named Bridgette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #356, reached in 1973. The most girls given the name in a single year was 630, in 1970. For comparison, it was #1,532 in 2015 and #2,673 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bridgette in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 5 babies. In all, 23,920 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 4,967 babies named Bridgette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 927 US girls were named Bridgette; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 130. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,264 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bridgette ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #670 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bridget (92,517 babies since 1880), Brigette (5,727 babies since 1880) and Bridgett (13,116 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bridgitte are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bridgitte (628).
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.
No nicknames listed for Bridgette in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 7 | #670 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,494 | #1,311 |
| California | 12 | #1,760 | #1,446 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,817 | #1,154 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 2024 | 84 | #2,236 | — | — |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,339 | — | — |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,213 | — | — |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 2020 | 77 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 2019 | 99 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 2018 | 97 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 2016 | 130 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 2015 | 146 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 2014 | 151 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 2013 | 172 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 2012 | 190 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 2011 | 179 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 2010 | 174 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 2009 | 204 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 2008 | 182 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 2007 | 187 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 2006 | 217 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 2005 | 210 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 2004 | 207 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 2003 | 252 | #935 | — | — |
| 2002 | 217 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 2001 | 234 | #946 | — | — |
| 2000 | 252 | #875 | — | — |
| 1999 | 283 | #778 | — | — |
| 1998 | 346 | #665 | — | — |
| 1997 | 314 | #689 | — | — |
| 1996 | 398 | #577 | — | — |
| 1995 | 426 | #552 | — | — |
| 1994 | 476 | #523 | — | — |
| 1993 | 536 | #474 | — | — |
| 1992 | 416 | #563 | — | — |
| 1991 | 524 | #467 | — | — |
| 1990 | 569 | #440 | — | — |
| 1989 | 563 | #436 | 6 | #7,058 |
| 1988 | 588 | #406 | — | — |
| 1987 | 487 | #455 | — | — |
| 1986 | 499 | #431 | — | — |
| 1985 | 496 | #440 | — | — |
| 1984 | 484 | #432 | — | — |
| 1983 | 460 | #447 | — | — |
| 1982 | 443 | #473 | — | — |
| 1981 | 446 | #476 | — | — |
| 1980 | 436 | #482 | — | — |
| 1979 | 405 | #498 | — | — |
| 1978 | 397 | #489 | — | — |
| 1977 | 431 | #458 | — | — |
| 1976 | 425 | #454 | — | — |
| 1975 | 454 | #436 | — | — |
| 1974 | 445 | #438 | 5 | #5,300 |
| 1973 | 595 | #356 | — | — |
| 1972 | 541 | #388 | — | — |
| 1971 | 494 | #423 | — | — |
| 1970 | 630 | #379 | — | — |
| 1969 | 591 | #387 | — | — |
| 1968 | 563 | #386 | — | — |
| 1967 | 575 | #383 | — | — |
| 1966 | 612 | #367 | 5 | #4,011 |
| 1965 | 494 | #420 | — | — |
| 1964 | 472 | #450 | — | — |
| 1963 | 458 | #451 | — | — |
| 1962 | 447 | #457 | — | — |
| 1961 | 376 | #504 | — | — |
| 1960 | 374 | #501 | — | — |
| 1959 | 294 | #572 | — | — |
| 1958 | 196 | #704 | — | — |
| 1957 | 68 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1956 | 50 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 1953 | 37 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,938 | — | — |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,484 | — | — |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,860 | — | — |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,372 | — | — |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,469 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,037 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,727 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,767 | — | — |
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).