How Many People Are Named Brigitte?

8,597

people named Brigitte are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 39,756 people in the US has this name

Based on 9,165 babies named Brigitte in Social Security records from 1946 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,705

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,508

See the top 100

Peak Year

1960

314 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: German, French
Pronunciation: bree-GI-tə (German), BREE-ZHEET (French)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

German and French form of BRIDGET.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Brigitte in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Brigitte alive today is about 41 years old, and 50% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 27 and 58 in 2025.

Under 30 2,396
27.9%
30 to 59 4,308
50.1%
60 and over 1,892
22%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Brigitte first appears in the records in 1946 and was given most often in 1960, to 314 babies. In 2025, 59 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1946 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Brigitte has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #550, in 1960. In 2025 it ranked #2,864.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,864
Best rank#550 (1960)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#629 in the 1960s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Brigitte alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Brigitte were born in California than in any other state: about 1,527 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Brigitte was given 2.3 times as often in California, 1.9 times in New York and 1.8 times in Florida.

California 1,527
New York 827
Texas 613
Florida 389
Illinois 349
Michigan 233
New Jersey 219
Ohio 207
Pennsylvania 168
Georgia 126
Louisiana 88
Virginia 76
Maryland 67
Indiana 65
Massachusetts 57
Alabama 51
Wisconsin 45
Washington 45
North Carolina 42
Tennessee 38
Missouri 37
Minnesota 36
District of Columbia 35
Arizona 34
Connecticut 26
Kentucky 22
South Carolina 21
Colorado 16
Kansas 11
Arkansas 6
Nevada 5
Iowa 4
Maine 4

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