Meaning not yet researched.
Brigitte: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 59 in 2025. Its best rank was #550 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #550 in 1960; #2,864 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brigitte in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,864 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #550.
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Brigitte: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 59 girls in 2025. Peak: #550 in 1960 · most girls in one year: 314 (1960).
In 2025, 59 US girls were named Brigitte, making it the 2,864th most common girls’ name of the year, down 494 places from #2,370 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 77 girls named Brigitte in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #550, reached in 1960. That year also had the most girls given the name: 314. For comparison, it was #1,647 in 2015 and #4,361 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brigitte in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 5 babies. In all, 9,165 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2,531 babies named Brigitte.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 658 US girls were named Brigitte; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 96. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,242 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brigitte ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,856 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) and Brigette (5,727 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brigit, Brigida and Brigett are summarised on this page.
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 and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brigit (1,238), Brigida (660), Brigett (475), Briggette (184), Briggitte (132), Brigitt (120), Birgitta (85), Brigita (17), Birgitte (5).
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 Brigitte 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,856 | #1,496 |
| New York | 5 | #2,146 | #1,226 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,686 | #964 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,898 | — | — |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,283 | — | — |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,978 | — | — |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,787 | — | — |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,668 | — | — |
| 2016 | 96 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 2015 | 130 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 2014 | 140 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,190 | — | — |
| 2012 | 96 | #2,019 | — | — |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,951 | — | — |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,132 | — | — |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,901 | — | — |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,277 | — | — |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,176 | — | — |
| 2006 | 106 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 2005 | 78 | #2,297 | — | — |
| 2004 | 81 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 2003 | 103 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 2002 | 101 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 2001 | 83 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 2000 | 77 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 1998 | 91 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 1997 | 112 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 1996 | 122 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1995 | 131 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1994 | 159 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1993 | 157 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1992 | 162 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1991 | 130 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1990 | 160 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1989 | 182 | #958 | — | — |
| 1988 | 172 | #968 | — | — |
| 1987 | 162 | #974 | — | — |
| 1986 | 146 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1985 | 158 | #973 | — | — |
| 1984 | 100 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1983 | 120 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1982 | 113 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1981 | 114 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1980 | 114 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 1979 | 94 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1978 | 81 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1977 | 124 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1976 | 136 | #940 | — | — |
| 1975 | 99 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1974 | 117 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1973 | 152 | #848 | — | — |
| 1972 | 154 | #841 | — | — |
| 1971 | 171 | #812 | — | — |
| 1970 | 189 | #765 | — | — |
| 1969 | 224 | #662 | — | — |
| 1968 | 205 | #678 | — | — |
| 1967 | 228 | #629 | — | — |
| 1966 | 283 | #566 | — | — |
| 1965 | 288 | #561 | — | — |
| 1964 | 221 | #692 | — | — |
| 1963 | 219 | #679 | — | — |
| 1962 | 269 | #611 | — | — |
| 1961 | 280 | #602 | — | — |
| 1960 | 314 | #550 | — | — |
| 1959 | 282 | #591 | — | — |
| 1958 | 169 | #771 | — | — |
| 1957 | 33 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,641 | — | — |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,898 | — | — |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,392 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,898 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,361 | — | — |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,648 | — | — |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,984 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,032 | — | — |
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).