Bridgett
Bridgett was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,450 among girls’ names; 13,116 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,200 Americans named Bridgett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 37 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bridgett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bridgett?
#8,450 among girls’ names, 2025
Bridgett fell from #3,609 in 2015 to #8,450 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.1 to 7.5 per million.
482 babies in 1970, the peak
Bridgett peaked in 1970, when 482 girls were given it, #453 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,450 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,040 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,310 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,700 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,104 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,679 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,679 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,293 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,079 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,482 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,609 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,197 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,521 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,324 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,874 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,213 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,005 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,805 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,618 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,400 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,318 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 74 | #2,325 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,124 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,268 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,918 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,618 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 135 | #1,329 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 130 | #1,349 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 151 | #1,197 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 151 | #1,195 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 171 | #1,046 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 224 | #872 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 235 | #836 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 185 | #1,014 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 209 | #916 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 234 | #840 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 237 | #802 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 225 | #812 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 224 | #787 | 0.13 |
| 1986 | 251 | #714 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 274 | #660 | 0.16 |
| 1984 | 277 | #635 | 0.16 |
| 1983 | 267 | #643 | 0.16 |
| 1982 | 311 | #588 | 0.18 |
| 1981 | 322 | #573 | 0.19 |
| 1980 | 323 | #575 | 0.19 |
| 1979 | 314 | #580 | 0.20 |
| 1978 | 283 | #602 | 0.18 |
| 1977 | 316 | #554 | 0.21 |
| 1976 | 316 | #546 | 0.22 |
| 1975 | 411 | #459 | 0.28 |
| 1974 | 358 | #491 | 0.24 |
| 1973 | 445 | #434 | 0.31 |
| 1972 | 369 | #483 | 0.24 |
| 1971 | 382 | #498 | 0.23 |
| 1970 | 482 | #453 | 0.28 |
| 1969 | 374 | #502 | 0.22 |
| 1968 | 320 | #534 | 0.20 |
| 1967 | 323 | #526 | 0.20 |
| 1966 | 331 | #518 | 0.20 |
| 1965 | 332 | #524 | 0.19 |
| 1964 | 316 | #558 | 0.17 |
| 1963 | 289 | #581 | 0.15 |
| 1962 | 273 | #605 | 0.14 |
| 1961 | 239 | #668 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 206 | #711 | 0.10 |
| 1959 | 159 | #811 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 92 | #1,094 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 68 | #1,273 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 64 | #1,298 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 61 | #1,291 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 62 | #1,257 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 43 | #1,493 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,643 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,953 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,671 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,858 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,619 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,270 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,615 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,162 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,697 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bridgett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bridgett has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bridgett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bridgett, and how old are they?
12,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 13,116 Americans ever recorded as Bridgett. The median Bridgett alive today is 48 years old; half are between 37 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 10,270 people named Bridgett (10,257 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,418 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,660 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,270 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,690 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 293 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Bridgett born?
The states with the most babies named Bridgett are Texas, California and Georgia, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,242 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 870 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 720 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Florida | 645 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Alabama | 578 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Ohio | 567 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 563 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 536 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Louisiana | 426 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 418 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Bridgett is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bridgett is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1942 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bridgett with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Bridgett?
Bridgett is a less common spelling of Bridget: SSA has recorded 13,116 Bridgett and 92,517 Bridget since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 107,058 babies since 1880, Bridgett is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 397 babies (3.0%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bridgett
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bridgett and names like it
- Compare Bridgett and BridgetBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBridgett peaked in 1970.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bridgett since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Bridgett.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Bridgett alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.