Brigette

Where Brigette comes from

Brigette hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1947
    Brigette Boucheron born
    French feminist and anarchist activist
  2. 1953
    First appearance
    #5,673 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1968
    Peak, #716
    185 babies named Brigette — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,475.
  5. 1992
    Brigette Lacquette born
    Canadian ice hockey player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Brigette Lacquette · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1992
  • Brigette Boucheron · French feminist and anarchist activist, born 1947
  • Brigette DePape · Canadian activist, born 1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.