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Bridget vs Britzy

American parents have registered 92,517 Bridgets since 1880, against 81 Britzys. Bridget is still ahead, with 385 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bridget against Britzy, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bridget Britzy

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Bridget has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Bridget had 909 and Britzy had 27.

Side by side

  Bridget Britzy
Total US births 92,51781
Most in one year 2,77027
Babies in 2025 385under 5
Estimated living today 84,00080
Median age today 4216
Peak year 19732007
Best rank 112th girls5,230th girls
Rank in 2025 724thunranked
First recorded 18802007
Girls / boys 92,367 / 15081 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Bridgets alive today are over 42; half the Britzys are over 16. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bridget and Britzy.