Brigette
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · girls
- 1968 · 185 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,727since 1953
Brigette over time
Rank among girls' names. Brigette has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 |
| 2015 | #4,488 | 31 |
| 2014 | #4,455 | 32 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 |
| 2011 | #6,855 | 18 |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 |
| 2009 | #4,571 | 32 |
| 2008 | #4,882 | 30 |
| 2007 | #3,721 | 43 |
| 2006 | #3,316 | 49 |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 |
| 2004 | #3,180 | 48 |
| 2003 | #2,800 | 55 |
| 2002 | #2,819 | 53 |
| 2001 | #3,198 | 43 |
| 2000 | #2,854 | 50 |
| 1999 | #2,424 | 60 |
| 1998 | #2,691 | 50 |
| 1997 | #1,983 | 72 |
| 1996 | #1,685 | 90 |
| 1995 | #2,006 | 68 |
| 1994 | #1,224 | 143 |
| 1993 | #1,776 | 82 |
| 1992 | #1,422 | 114 |
| 1991 | #1,248 | 135 |
| 1990 | #1,232 | 135 |
| 1989 | #1,204 | 134 |
| 1988 | #1,116 | 138 |
| 1987 | #1,195 | 121 |
| 1986 | #1,129 | 128 |
| 1985 | #1,401 | 91 |
| 1984 | #1,216 | 107 |
| 1983 | #1,110 | 122 |
| 1982 | #1,152 | 122 |
| 1981 | #1,475 | 82 |
| 1980 | #1,049 | 136 |
| 1979 | #1,323 | 94 |
| 1978 | #1,212 | 103 |
| 1977 | #1,097 | 118 |
| 1976 | #964 | 132 |
| 1975 | #1,074 | 109 |
| 1974 | #929 | 134 |
| 1973 | #801 | 163 |
| 1972 | #937 | 131 |
| 1971 | #895 | 148 |
| 1970 | #920 | 140 |
| 1969 | #861 | 146 |
| 1968 | #716 | 185 |
| 1967 | #805 | 154 |
| 1966 | #744 | 175 |
| 1965 | #854 | 138 |
| 1964 | #964 | 120 |
| 1963 | #894 | 137 |
| 1962 | #1,050 | 106 |
| 1961 | #1,083 | 102 |
| 1960 | #1,015 | 112 |
| 1959 | #1,059 | 101 |
| 1958 | #1,189 | 80 |
| 1957 | #2,347 | 23 |
| 1956 | #3,493 | 12 |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brigette! It came in at #5,673, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1954, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Brigette is popular in 1960
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#517 · 1 in 4,314
- Tennessee#533 · 1 in 6,068
- Virginia#599 · 1 in 7,961
- New York#777 · 1 in 12,900
- Michigan#781 · 1 in 14,718
Best ever in a state: #315 in District of Columbia, 1966.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #517 | 9 | 1 in 4,314 |
| Tennessee | #533 | 6 | 1 in 6,068 |
| Virginia | #599 | 5 | 1 in 7,961 |
| New York | #777 | 13 | 1 in 12,900 |
| Michigan | #781 | 6 | 1 in 14,718 |
| Pennsylvania | #784 | 7 | 1 in 15,955 |
| California | #999 | 11 | 1 in 15,695 |
| Illinois | #1,058 | 5 | 1 in 21,524 |
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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 Brigette
- 4,670 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #7,491)
- 2,759 spots since 2020 (#10,250 → #7,491)
- 3,003 spots since 2015 (#4,488 → #7,491)
- Biggest jump: 156 spots in 1963 (#1,050 → #894)
- Biggest drop: 145 spots in 1969 (#716 → #861)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 1968 at #716 (185 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1963–1974
- Highest: 1 in 8,867 girls born in 1968 were named Brigette (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 24.0% of all girls named Brigette (1,375) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 235 | #1,059 (1959) | #3,326 |
| 1960s | 1,375 | #716 (1968) | #899 |
| 1970s | 1,272 | #801 (1973) | #1,015 |
| 1980s | 1,181 | #1,049 (1980) | #1,205 |
| 1990s | 949 | #1,224 (1994) | #1,769 |
| 2000s | 445 | #2,800 (2003) | #3,485 |
| 2010s | 208 | #4,455 (2014) | #6,503 |
| 2020s | 62 | #7,491 (2025) | #9,694 |
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.
Brigette in 1960
Top girls' names in 1960
More about 1960
girls
2,021,941 girls got a published name in 1960; 1 in 18,053 of them was named Brigette, which outranked 86.2% of the 7,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,009Melonie113
- #1,009Rhea113
- #1,009Suzann113
- #1,015Brigette112
- #1,015Caryl112
- #1,015Chrystal112
- #1,015Machelle112
- #1,020Adela111
- #1,020Alyssa111
- #1,020Charleen111
Tied with 4 names at #1,015; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.