Brigitte
The girl's name Brigitte has been in the national records since 1946, with 9,165 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,859th. About 8,600 Brigittes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 43.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Brigitte
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,165
- Estimated living today
- 8,600
- Median age today
- 43
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 550th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,859th
- First recorded
- 1946
How old the living Brigittes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,165 babies given the name since 1946, about 8,600 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 780 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1982 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Brigittes
- Brigitte Bardot (1934–2025)French actress, singer, animal rights activist
- Brigitte Macron (born 1953)French teacher, spouse of French statesman Emmanuel Macron
- Brigitte Bierlein (1949–2024)Austrian jurist and politician, former federal chancellor of Austria and president of the Austrian constitutional court
- Brigitte Nielsen (born 1963)Danish actress, model and singer
- Brigitte Helm (1908–1996)German actress
- Brigitte Haas (born 1964)Liechtenstein lawyer and politician
- Brigitte Fossey (born 1946)French actress
- Brigitte Fontaine (born 1939)French poet and artist
People named Brigitte with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Brigitte is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Brigitte is most concentrated in California (2.7×), Florida (2.0×), New York (1.9×), the District of Columbia (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular girls’ names the year Brigitte peaked:
Brigitte elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Brigitte | 202,570 | 1st |
| France boys | Brigitte | 145 | 592nd |
| England and Wales girls | Brigitte | 56 | 3,518th |
| Belgium girls | Brigitte | 7 | 939th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Brigitte among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Brigitte | 7,246 | 10,411 |
| the Netherlands boys | Brigitte | — | 139 |
| Finland girls | Brigitte | 29 | 72 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Brigitte lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 907 women called Brigitte were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Brigitte | 118 | 0.115 | 708 |
| Balears, Illes | Brigitte | 71 | 0.113 | 689 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Brigitte | 52 | 0.094 | 984 |
| Girona | Brigitte | 38 | 0.092 | 864 |
| Palmas, Las | Brigitte | 48 | 0.081 | 1,174 |
| Málaga | Brigitte | 65 | 0.071 | 912 |
Listed in 25 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 27 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Brigitte against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.