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Brigid

Pronounced /ˈbɹɪ.d͡ʒɪd/

Rank in 2024
#2,673
Born in 2024
65
Peak year
2000 · #1410
Origin
Irish

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 65 girls were named Brigid, about 1 in every 24,818.
  • It peaked in 2000 with 132 babies, ranked #1410.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1917.
  • 6,443 girls have been named Brigid since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Brigid per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 11 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 107 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,141 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,179 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,456 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,698 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 851 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Irish Brighid, from Old Irish Brigit, from Proto-Celtic *Brigantī (“high, exalted”).

  • A female given name from Irish, equivalent to English Bridget, sometimes borrowed from Irish.
Origin
Irish
Say it
/ˈbɹɪ.d͡ʒɪd/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Brigid, CC BY-SA 4.0.