Brigid
#2,778 for girls in 2025, 61 births
- Peak · girls
- 1965 · 117 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,504since 1917
Brigid over time
Rank among girls' names. Brigid has never cracked the top 900 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 | #2,778 | 61 |
| 2024 | #2,661 | 65 |
| 2023 | #2,614 | 67 |
| 2022 | #2,956 | 56 |
| 2021 | #3,390 | 46 |
| 2020 | #2,416 | 72 |
| 2019 | #2,331 | 77 |
| 2018 | #2,438 | 73 |
| 2017 | #2,401 | 75 |
| 2016 | #2,366 | 79 |
| 2015 | #2,318 | 80 |
| 2014 | #2,194 | 86 |
| 2013 | #2,408 | 75 |
| 2012 | #2,189 | 86 |
| 2011 | #2,346 | 79 |
| 2010 | #2,313 | 82 |
| 2009 | #2,204 | 89 |
| 2008 | #2,078 | 98 |
| 2007 | #2,177 | 91 |
| 2006 | #1,905 | 106 |
| 2005 | #1,790 | 109 |
| 2004 | #1,643 | 118 |
| 2003 | #1,561 | 123 |
| 2002 | #1,624 | 114 |
| 2001 | #1,458 | 129 |
| 2000 | #1,402 | 132 |
| 1999 | #1,458 | 119 |
| 1998 | #1,472 | 116 |
| 1997 | #1,514 | 107 |
| 1996 | #1,446 | 113 |
| 1995 | #1,562 | 97 |
| 1994 | #1,545 | 100 |
| 1993 | #1,569 | 98 |
| 1992 | #1,688 | 89 |
| 1991 | #1,584 | 96 |
| 1990 | #1,557 | 98 |
| 1989 | #1,600 | 87 |
| 1988 | #1,614 | 80 |
| 1987 | #1,433 | 91 |
| 1986 | #1,620 | 73 |
| 1985 | #1,323 | 100 |
| 1984 | #1,397 | 83 |
| 1983 | #1,411 | 83 |
| 1982 | #1,417 | 86 |
| 1981 | #1,475 | 82 |
| 1980 | #1,417 | 87 |
| 1979 | #1,454 | 83 |
| 1978 | #1,487 | 76 |
| 1977 | #1,483 | 74 |
| 1976 | #1,568 | 64 |
| 1975 | #1,906 | 47 |
| 1974 | #1,578 | 60 |
| 1973 | #1,570 | 59 |
| 1972 | #1,698 | 52 |
| 1971 | #1,500 | 67 |
| 1970 | #1,599 | 59 |
| 1969 | #1,480 | 63 |
| 1968 | #1,133 | 89 |
| 1967 | #1,239 | 74 |
| 1966 | #986 | 108 |
| 1965 | #944 | 117 |
| 1964 | #1,021 | 111 |
| 1963 | #1,073 | 101 |
| 1962 | #1,043 | 107 |
| 1961 | #1,126 | 95 |
| 1960 | #1,092 | 97 |
| 1959 | #1,104 | 94 |
| 1958 | #1,203 | 78 |
| 1957 | #1,427 | 55 |
| 1956 | #1,480 | 51 |
| 1955 | #1,334 | 57 |
| 1954 | #1,392 | 52 |
| 1953 | #1,531 | 41 |
| 1952 | #1,578 | 37 |
| 1951 | #1,637 | 34 |
| 1950 | #1,835 | 27 |
| 1949 | #1,917 | 25 |
| 1948 | #1,820 | 27 |
| 1947 | #1,946 | 25 |
| 1946 | #1,723 | 27 |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 |
| 1944 | #2,625 | 12 |
| 1943 | #2,251 | 16 |
| 1942 | #2,416 | 14 |
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 |
| 1940 | #3,208 | 8 |
| 1939 | #2,592 | 11 |
| 1938 | #2,730 | 10 |
| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 |
| 1936 | #3,376 | 7 |
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| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 |
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| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 |
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| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brigid! It came in at #4,083, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1931, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Brigid is popular in 1969
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#728 · 1 in 10,535
- Michigan#814 · 1 in 11,953
- Illinois#1,095 · 1 in 16,956
- New York#1,132 · 1 in 17,370
- California#1,832 · 1 in 31,973
Best ever in a state: #210 in District of Columbia, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #728 | 8 | 1 in 10,535 |
| Michigan | #814 | 6 | 1 in 11,953 |
| Illinois | #1,095 | 5 | 1 in 16,956 |
| New York | #1,132 | 8 | 1 in 17,370 |
| California | #1,832 | 5 | 1 in 31,973 |
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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 Brigid
- 117 spots since 2024 (#2,661 → #2,778)
- 362 spots since 2020 (#2,416 → #2,778)
- 460 spots since 2015 (#2,318 → #2,778)
- Biggest jump: 77 spots in 1965 (#1,021 → #944)
- Biggest drop: 253 spots in 1967 (#986 → #1,239)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1965 at #944 (117 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1965–1966
- Highest: 1 in 13,758 girls born in 2000 were named Brigid (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,349 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #944 in 1965, was only 1 in 15,087 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.1% of all girls named Brigid (1,109) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | #4,083 (1917) | #4,083 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,805 (1927) | #4,805 |
| 1930s | 42 | #2,592 (1939) | #3,140 |
| 1940s | 169 | #1,723 (1946) | #2,499 |
| 1950s | 526 | #1,104 (1959) | #1,452 |
| 1960s | 962 | #944 (1965) | #1,114 |
| 1970s | 641 | #1,454 (1979) | #1,584 |
| 1980s | 852 | #1,323 (1985) | #1,471 |
| 1990s | 1,033 | #1,446 (1996) | #1,540 |
| 2000s | 1,109 | #1,402 (2000) | #1,784 |
| 2010s | 792 | #2,189 (2012) | #2,330 |
| 2020s | 367 | #2,416 (2020) | #2,803 |
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.
Brigid in 1969
Top girls' names in 1969
More about 1969
girls
1,687,016 girls got a published name in 1969; 1 in 26,778 of them was named Brigid, which outranked 83.0% of the 8,708 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,465Tameka64
- #1,465Treena64
- #1,465Wende64
- #1,480Brigid63
- #1,480Coreen63
- #1,480Debrah63
- #1,480Diedre63
- #1,499Brittany62
- #1,499Carman62
- #1,499Cathi62
Tied with 18 names at #1,480; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.