Meaning not yet researched.
Brigid: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 61 in 2025. Its best rank was #944 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #944 in 1965; #2,784 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brigid in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,784 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1965, at #944.
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Brigid: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 61 girls in 2025. Peak: #944 in 1965 · most girls in one year: 132 (2000).
In 2025, 61 US girls were named Brigid, making it the 2,784th most common girls’ name of the year, down 112 places from #2,672 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 65 girls named Brigid in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #944, reached in 1965. The most girls given the name in a single year was 132, in 2000. For comparison, it was #2,323 in 2015 and #1,837 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brigid in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 6 babies. In all, 6,504 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,109 babies named Brigid.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 671 US girls were named Brigid; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 79. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,349 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brigid ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,873 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).
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.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Brigid 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #1,873 | #2,271 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,379 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,784 | — | — |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,672 | — | — |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,623 | — | — |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,965 | — | — |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,399 | — | — |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,420 | — | — |
| 2019 | 77 | #2,335 | — | — |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,406 | — | — |
| 2016 | 79 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 2015 | 80 | #2,323 | — | — |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 2013 | 75 | #2,413 | — | — |
| 2012 | 86 | #2,192 | — | — |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 2009 | 89 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 2008 | 98 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 2007 | 91 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 2006 | 106 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 2005 | 109 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 2004 | 118 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,564 | — | — |
| 2002 | 114 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 2001 | 129 | #1,459 | — | — |
| 2000 | 132 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1999 | 119 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1998 | 116 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1997 | 107 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 1995 | 97 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1994 | 100 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 1993 | 98 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 1992 | 89 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1991 | 96 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1990 | 98 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1987 | 91 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1986 | 73 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1985 | 100 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1984 | 83 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1983 | 83 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1982 | 86 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1981 | 82 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1980 | 87 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1979 | 83 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1978 | 76 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1977 | 74 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1976 | 64 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1974 | 60 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1972 | 52 | #1,698 | — | — |
| 1971 | 67 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1970 | 59 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1969 | 63 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1968 | 89 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1967 | 74 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1966 | 108 | #986 | — | — |
| 1965 | 117 | #944 | — | — |
| 1964 | 111 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1963 | 101 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1962 | 107 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1961 | 95 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1960 | 97 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1959 | 94 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1958 | 78 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1957 | 55 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1954 | 52 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,923 | — | — |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,165 | — | — |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,637 | — | — |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,266 | — | — |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,428 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,009 | — | — |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,246 | — | — |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,757 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,483 | — | — |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,412 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,614 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,897 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,157 | — | — |
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).