Brigitte
#2,859 for girls in 2025, 59 births
- Peak · girls
- 1960 · 314 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,165since 1946
Brigitte over time
Rank among girls' names. Brigitte has never cracked the top 500 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 | #2,859 | 59 |
| 2024 | #2,362 | 77 |
| 2023 | #2,891 | 58 |
| 2022 | #3,278 | 49 |
| 2021 | #2,715 | 63 |
| 2020 | #2,966 | 54 |
| 2019 | #2,784 | 60 |
| 2018 | #2,361 | 77 |
| 2017 | #2,664 | 65 |
| 2016 | #2,054 | 96 |
| 2015 | #1,643 | 130 |
| 2014 | #1,552 | 140 |
| 2013 | #2,187 | 85 |
| 2012 | #2,016 | 96 |
| 2011 | #2,945 | 58 |
| 2010 | #3,123 | 53 |
| 2009 | #2,892 | 60 |
| 2008 | #3,267 | 51 |
| 2007 | #3,168 | 54 |
| 2006 | #1,905 | 106 |
| 2005 | #2,296 | 78 |
| 2004 | #2,195 | 81 |
| 2003 | #1,813 | 103 |
| 2002 | #1,780 | 101 |
| 2001 | #2,035 | 83 |
| 2000 | #2,103 | 77 |
| 1999 | #1,975 | 79 |
| 1998 | #1,734 | 91 |
| 1997 | #1,466 | 112 |
| 1996 | #1,375 | 122 |
| 1995 | #1,279 | 131 |
| 1994 | #1,129 | 159 |
| 1993 | #1,131 | 157 |
| 1992 | #1,105 | 162 |
| 1991 | #1,287 | 130 |
| 1990 | #1,095 | 160 |
| 1989 | #958 | 182 |
| 1988 | #967 | 172 |
| 1987 | #974 | 162 |
| 1986 | #1,032 | 146 |
| 1985 | #972 | 158 |
| 1984 | #1,266 | 100 |
| 1983 | #1,120 | 120 |
| 1982 | #1,198 | 113 |
| 1981 | #1,165 | 114 |
| 1980 | #1,176 | 114 |
| 1979 | #1,323 | 94 |
| 1978 | #1,422 | 81 |
| 1977 | #1,060 | 124 |
| 1976 | #939 | 136 |
| 1975 | #1,162 | 99 |
| 1974 | #1,023 | 117 |
| 1973 | #847 | 152 |
| 1972 | #841 | 154 |
| 1971 | #812 | 171 |
| 1970 | #765 | 189 |
| 1969 | #662 | 224 |
| 1968 | #678 | 205 |
| 1967 | #629 | 228 |
| 1966 | #566 | 283 |
| 1965 | #561 | 288 |
| 1964 | #692 | 221 |
| 1963 | #679 | 219 |
| 1962 | #611 | 269 |
| 1961 | #602 | 280 |
| 1960 | #550 | 314 |
| 1959 | #590 | 282 |
| 1958 | #771 | 169 |
| 1957 | #1,904 | 33 |
| 1956 | #1,968 | 30 |
| 1955 | #2,635 | 18 |
| 1954 | #2,889 | 15 |
| 1953 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1952 | #3,372 | 11 |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
| 1949 | #3,612 | 9 |
| 1948 | #2,974 | 12 |
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| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brigitte! It came in at #4,960, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1946–1947, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Brigitte is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#764 · 1 in 8,380
- New York#777 · 1 in 6,756
- New Jersey#813 · 1 in 7,453
- Florida#848 · 1 in 7,727
- Illinois#916 · 1 in 9,394
Best ever in a state: #211 in District of Columbia, 1960.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #764 | 7 | 1 in 8,380 |
| New York | #777 | 15 | 1 in 6,756 |
| New Jersey | #813 | 5 | 1 in 7,453 |
| Florida | #848 | 7 | 1 in 7,727 |
| Illinois | #916 | 8 | 1 in 9,394 |
| Ohio | #917 | 6 | 1 in 12,042 |
| California | #1,098 | 16 | 1 in 11,331 |
| Texas | #1,770 | 5 | 1 in 24,747 |
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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 Brigitte
- 497 spots since 2024 (#2,362 → #2,859)
- 107 spots since 2020 (#2,966 → #2,859)
- 1,216 spots since 2015 (#1,643 → #2,859)
- Biggest jump: 1,133 spots in 1958 (#1,904 → #771)
- Biggest drop: 176 spots in 1974 (#847 → #1,023)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 1960 at #550 (314 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 1958–1973
- Highest: 1 in 5,979 girls born in 1966 were named Brigitte (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,242 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #550 in 1960, was only 1 in 6,439 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.6% of all girls named Brigitte (2,531) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 26 | #2,974 (1948) | #3,849 |
| 1950s | 593 | #590 (1959) | #2,551 |
| 1960s | 2,531 | #550 (1960) | #623 |
| 1970s | 1,317 | #765 (1970) | #1,019 |
| 1980s | 1,381 | #958 (1989) | #1,083 |
| 1990s | 1,303 | #1,095 (1990) | #1,358 |
| 2000s | 794 | #1,780 (2002) | #2,345 |
| 2010s | 860 | #1,552 (2014) | #2,333 |
| 2020s | 360 | #2,362 (2024) | #2,845 |
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.
Brigitte in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 14,632 of them was named Brigitte, which outranked 90.4% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,158Richard115
- #1,158Shanelle115
- #1,158Tamica115
- #1,165Brigitte114
- #1,165Alia114
- #1,165Atiya114
- #1,165Lucretia114
- #1,172Elsie113
- #1,172Fabiola113
- #1,172Georgette113
Tied with 6 names at #1,165; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.