Bridgett

#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births

Peak · girls
1973 · 445 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
13,116
since 1942

Bridgett over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Bridgett has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201942peak #434, 1973girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#8,36212
2024#8,94611
2023#7,24715
2022#7,63114
2021#8,02413
2020#6,62917
2019#8,59712
2018#6,24819
2017#4,06636
2016#5,44524
2015#3,59543
2014#4,17835
2013#3,51344
2012#3,31449
2011#2,86860
2010#3,20351
2009#3,00057
2008#2,80264
2007#2,61670
2006#2,39678
2005#2,31477
2004#2,32674
2003#2,12582
2002#2,26372
2001#1,92290
2000#1,617109
1999#1,329135
1998#1,350130
1997#1,199151
1996#1,194151
1995#1,049171
1994#872224
1993#837235
1992#1,016185
1991#918209
1990#841234
1989#803237
1988#812225
1987#787224
1986#714251
1985#660274
1984#635277
1983#643267
1982#587311
1981#573322
1980#575323
1979#580314
1978#602283
1977#554316
1976#546316
1975#459411
1974#491358
1973#434445
1972#483369
1971#498382
1970#453482
1969#502374
1968#534320
1967#526323
1966#518331
1965#524332
1964#558316
1963#581289
1962#605273
1961#668239
1960#711206
1959#811159
1958#1,09592
1957#1,27468
1956#1,29864
1955#1,29261
1954#1,25662
1953#1,49143
1952#1,64135
1951#2,93713
1950#2,65215
1949#2,85013
1948#3,5939
1947#3,24011
1946#2,59714
1945#3,1329
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First appearance
1942

The first year at least five girls were named Bridgett! It came in at #4,622, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1942–1944, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Bridgett is popular in 1942

No state had 5 or more girls named Bridgett in 1942, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Bridgett
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 584 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #8,362)
  • 1,733 spots since 2020 (#6,629 → #8,362)
  • 4,767 spots since 2015 (#3,595 → #8,362)
  • Biggest jump: 284 spots in 1959 (#1,095 → #811)
  • Biggest drop: 177 spots in 1995 (#872 → #1,049)
Rise & fade · girls
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1942
  • Peaked 1973 at #434 (445 births)
  • Births halved by 1991, 18 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 35 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1959–1991
Share of babies · girls
1 in 3,277
  • Highest: 1 in 3,277 girls born in 1973 were named Bridgett (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 28.0% of all girls named Bridgett (3,676) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s61#2,597 (1946)#3,339
1950s612#811 (1959)#1,575
1960s3,003#502 (1969)#573
1970s3,676#434 (1973)#510
1980s2,711#573 (1981)#679
1990s1,825#837 (1993)#1,061
2000s773#1,617 (2000)#2,338
2010s373#2,868 (2011)#4,503
2020s82#6,629 (2020)#7,807

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Bridgett in 1942

girls
#4,622
5 births · 1 in 270,144 girls

Top girls' names in 1942

  1. #1Mary63,256
  2. #2Barbara44,739
  3. #3Patricia39,465
  4. #4Linda31,613
  5. #5Carol30,272
  6. #6Sandra24,994
  7. #7Judith24,792
  8. #8Nancy23,327
  9. #9Betty21,659
  10. #10Carolyn19,978
  11. #4,622Bridgett5
More about 1942

girls

1,350,719 girls got a published name in 1942; 1 in 270,144 of them was named Bridgett, which outranked 14.1% of the 5,378 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Bridgett
  1. #4,124Zane6
  2. #4,124Zelphia6
  3. #4,124Zorina6
  4. #4,622Bridgett5
  5. #4,622Adda5
  6. #4,622Adelene5
  7. #4,622Adina5

Tied with 756 names at #4,622; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1941
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,567Michal#4,420 → #853
  2. ↑ 1,885Merrily#2,397 → #512
  3. ↑ 1,081Merrilee#1,954 → #873
  4. ↑ 783Jerrilyn#1,610 → #827
  5. ↑ 760Candace#1,418 → #658
Fallers
  1. ↓ 354Rebekah#924 → #1,278
  2. ↓ 350Leatha#830 → #1,180
  3. ↓ 307Nella#993 → #1,300
  4. ↓ 272Arla#934 → #1,206
  5. ↓ 262Vivien#735 → #997

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1942 →