Bridgette
#2,117 for girls in 2025, 88 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,941
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1973 · 595 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 23,904since 1943
Bridgette over time
Rank among girls' names. Bridgette has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,117 | 88 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,231 | 84 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,336 | 78 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,208 | 85 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,608 | 66 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,302 | 77 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,961 | 99 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,014 | 97 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,721 | 123 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,656 | 130 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,532 | 146 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,479 | 151 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,351 | 172 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,264 | 190 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,311 | 179 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,348 | 174 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,218 | 204 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,345 | 182 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,303 | 187 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,136 | 217 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,121 | 210 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,102 | 207 | — | |
| 2003 | #933 | 252 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,008 | 217 | — | |
| 2001 | #946 | 234 | — | |
| 2000 | #874 | 252 | — | |
| 1999 | #778 | 283 | — | |
| 1998 | #665 | 346 | — | |
| 1997 | #689 | 314 | — | |
| 1996 | #577 | 398 | — | |
| 1995 | #552 | 426 | — | |
| 1994 | #523 | 476 | — | |
| 1993 | #474 | 536 | — | |
| 1992 | #563 | 416 | — | |
| 1991 | #467 | 524 | — | |
| 1990 | #440 | 569 | — | |
| 1989 | #436 | 563 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #406 | 588 | — | |
| 1987 | #455 | 487 | — | |
| 1986 | #431 | 499 | — | |
| 1985 | #440 | 496 | — | |
| 1984 | #432 | 484 | — | |
| 1983 | #447 | 460 | — | |
| 1982 | #473 | 443 | — | |
| 1981 | #475 | 446 | — | |
| 1980 | #482 | 436 | — | |
| 1979 | #498 | 405 | — | |
| 1978 | #489 | 397 | — | |
| 1977 | #458 | 431 | — | |
| 1976 | #454 | 425 | — | |
| 1975 | #436 | 454 | — | |
| 1974 | #438 | 445 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #356 | 595 | — | |
| 1972 | #388 | 541 | — | |
| 1971 | #423 | 494 | — | |
| 1970 | #379 | 630 | — | |
| 1969 | #387 | 591 | — | |
| 1968 | #386 | 563 | — | |
| 1967 | #383 | 575 | — | |
| 1966 | #367 | 612 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #420 | 494 | — | |
| 1964 | #450 | 472 | — | |
| 1963 | #451 | 458 | — | |
| 1962 | #457 | 447 | — | |
| 1961 | #504 | 376 | — | |
| 1960 | #500 | 374 | — | |
| 1959 | #571 | 294 | — | |
| 1958 | #704 | 196 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,274 | 68 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,506 | 50 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,480 | 47 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,875 | 31 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,622 | 37 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,934 | 27 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,474 | 17 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,850 | 13 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 | — | |
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| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bridgette! It came in at #4,691, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Bridgette is popular in 1956
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#667 · 1 in 10,355
Best ever in a state: #149 in Kentucky, 1985.
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| North Carolina | #667 | 5 | 1 in 10,355 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bridgette
- 114 spots since 2024 (#2,231 → #2,117)
- 185 spots since 2020 (#2,302 → #2,117)
- 585 spots since 2015 (#1,532 → #2,117)
- Biggest jump: 570 spots in 1958 (#1,274 → #704)
- Biggest drop: 169 spots in 2004 (#933 → #1,102)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1973 at #356 (595 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 26 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 45 yrs · run 1958–2001
- Highest: 1 in 2,451 girls born in 1973 were named Bridgette (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,264 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 20.8% of all girls named Bridgette (4,962) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 52 | #2,850 (1949) | #3,670 |
| 1950s | 782 | #571 (1959) | #1,609 |
| 1960s | 4,962 | #367 (1966) | #431 |
| 1970s | 4,817 | #356 (1973) | #432 |
| 1980s | 4,902 | #406 (1988) | #448 |
| 1990s | 4,288 | #440 (1990) | #573 |
| 2000s | 2,162 | #874 (2000) | #1,099 |
| 2010s | 1,461 | #1,264 (2012) | #1,564 |
| 2020s | 478 | #2,117 (2025) | #2,300 |
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.
Bridgette in 1956
Top girls' names in 1956
More about 1956
girls
2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 40,154 of them was named Bridgette, which outranked 78.1% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,480Rozanne51
- #1,480Susette51
- #1,480Wendie51
- #1,506Bridgette50
- #1,506Herminia50
- #1,506Janett50
- #1,506Johnette50
- #1,520Adelaide49
- #1,520Dorie49
- #1,520Jacquelyne49
Tied with 13 names at #1,506; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.