Bridgett
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · girls
- 1973 · 445 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,116since 1942
Bridgett over time
Rank among girls' names. Bridgett has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 |
| 2017 | #4,066 | 36 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 |
| 2015 | #3,595 | 43 |
| 2014 | #4,178 | 35 |
| 2013 | #3,513 | 44 |
| 2012 | #3,314 | 49 |
| 2011 | #2,868 | 60 |
| 2010 | #3,203 | 51 |
| 2009 | #3,000 | 57 |
| 2008 | #2,802 | 64 |
| 2007 | #2,616 | 70 |
| 2006 | #2,396 | 78 |
| 2005 | #2,314 | 77 |
| 2004 | #2,326 | 74 |
| 2003 | #2,125 | 82 |
| 2002 | #2,263 | 72 |
| 2001 | #1,922 | 90 |
| 2000 | #1,617 | 109 |
| 1999 | #1,329 | 135 |
| 1998 | #1,350 | 130 |
| 1997 | #1,199 | 151 |
| 1996 | #1,194 | 151 |
| 1995 | #1,049 | 171 |
| 1994 | #872 | 224 |
| 1993 | #837 | 235 |
| 1992 | #1,016 | 185 |
| 1991 | #918 | 209 |
| 1990 | #841 | 234 |
| 1989 | #803 | 237 |
| 1988 | #812 | 225 |
| 1987 | #787 | 224 |
| 1986 | #714 | 251 |
| 1985 | #660 | 274 |
| 1984 | #635 | 277 |
| 1983 | #643 | 267 |
| 1982 | #587 | 311 |
| 1981 | #573 | 322 |
| 1980 | #575 | 323 |
| 1979 | #580 | 314 |
| 1978 | #602 | 283 |
| 1977 | #554 | 316 |
| 1976 | #546 | 316 |
| 1975 | #459 | 411 |
| 1974 | #491 | 358 |
| 1973 | #434 | 445 |
| 1972 | #483 | 369 |
| 1971 | #498 | 382 |
| 1970 | #453 | 482 |
| 1969 | #502 | 374 |
| 1968 | #534 | 320 |
| 1967 | #526 | 323 |
| 1966 | #518 | 331 |
| 1965 | #524 | 332 |
| 1964 | #558 | 316 |
| 1963 | #581 | 289 |
| 1962 | #605 | 273 |
| 1961 | #668 | 239 |
| 1960 | #711 | 206 |
| 1959 | #811 | 159 |
| 1958 | #1,095 | 92 |
| 1957 | #1,274 | 68 |
| 1956 | #1,298 | 64 |
| 1955 | #1,292 | 61 |
| 1954 | #1,256 | 62 |
| 1953 | #1,491 | 43 |
| 1952 | #1,641 | 35 |
| 1951 | #2,937 | 13 |
| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 |
| 1949 | #2,850 | 13 |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 |
| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 |
| 1946 | #2,597 | 14 |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 |
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| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bridgett! It came in at #4,622, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1942–1944, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Bridgett is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kentucky#277 · 1 in 1,749
- Mississippi#281 · 1 in 1,417
- Tennessee#288 · 1 in 1,780
- Alabama#290 · 1 in 1,637
- Georgia#293 · 1 in 1,681
Best ever in a state: #159 in Mississippi, 1972.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #277 | 14 | 1 in 1,749 |
| Mississippi | #281 | 11 | 1 in 1,417 |
| Tennessee | #288 | 16 | 1 in 1,780 |
| Alabama | #290 | 14 | 1 in 1,637 |
| Georgia | #293 | 20 | 1 in 1,681 |
| West Virginia | #299 | 6 | 1 in 2,030 |
| Kansas | #306 | 8 | 1 in 1,797 |
| North Carolina | #339 | 14 | 1 in 2,347 |
| Louisiana | #343 | 15 | 1 in 1,950 |
| Missouri | #381 | 11 | 1 in 2,935 |
| South Carolina | #399 | 7 | 1 in 2,464 |
| Indiana | #433 | 10 | 1 in 3,624 |
| Michigan | #476 | 15 | 1 in 3,972 |
| Oklahoma | #514 | 5 | 1 in 3,702 |
| Florida | #575 | 11 | 1 in 4,261 |
| Texas | #614 | 25 | 1 in 4,444 |
| Ohio | #616 | 11 | 1 in 6,554 |
| Washington | #645 | 5 | 1 in 5,064 |
| Illinois | #647 | 14 | 1 in 5,335 |
| Virginia | #649 | 5 | 1 in 5,837 |
| Pennsylvania | #710 | 9 | 1 in 7,601 |
| California | #1,067 | 16 | 1 in 10,208 |
| New York | #1,169 | 8 | 1 in 12,365 |
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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 Bridgett
- 584 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #8,362)
- 1,733 spots since 2020 (#6,629 → #8,362)
- 4,767 spots since 2015 (#3,595 → #8,362)
- Biggest jump: 284 spots in 1959 (#1,095 → #811)
- Biggest drop: 177 spots in 1995 (#872 → #1,049)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1973 at #434 (445 births)
- Births halved by 1991, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1959–1991
- Highest: 1 in 3,277 girls born in 1973 were named Bridgett (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.0% of all girls named Bridgett (3,676) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 61 | #2,597 (1946) | #3,339 |
| 1950s | 612 | #811 (1959) | #1,575 |
| 1960s | 3,003 | #502 (1969) | #573 |
| 1970s | 3,676 | #434 (1973) | #510 |
| 1980s | 2,711 | #573 (1981) | #679 |
| 1990s | 1,825 | #837 (1993) | #1,061 |
| 2000s | 773 | #1,617 (2000) | #2,338 |
| 2010s | 373 | #2,868 (2011) | #4,503 |
| 2020s | 82 | #6,629 (2020) | #7,807 |
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.
Bridgett in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 5,112 of them was named Bridgett, which outranked 95.2% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).