Bridgette
Bridgette was given to 88 girls in 2025, #2,125 among girls’ names; 23,920 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,600 Americans named Bridgette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 31 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bridgette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bridgette mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bridgette is “a female given name.”
Variant of Bridget.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bridgette?
#2,125 among girls’ names, 2025
Bridgette fell from #1,532 in 2015 to #2,125 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 81.8 to 54.8 per million.
630 babies in 1970, the peak
Bridgette peaked in 1970, when 630 girls were given it, #379 among girls’ names. The 88 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | #2,125 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 84 | #2,236 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,339 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,213 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,613 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 77 | #2,306 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 99 | #1,961 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 97 | #2,016 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,721 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 130 | #1,657 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 146 | #1,532 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 151 | #1,481 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 172 | #1,352 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 190 | #1,265 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 179 | #1,315 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 174 | #1,350 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 204 | #1,220 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 182 | #1,345 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 187 | #1,305 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 217 | #1,136 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 210 | #1,121 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 207 | #1,102 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 252 | #935 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 217 | #1,007 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 234 | #945 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 252 | #874 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 283 | #777 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 346 | #665 | 0.20 |
| 1997 | 314 | #689 | 0.18 |
| 1996 | 398 | #577 | 0.23 |
| 1995 | 426 | #552 | 0.24 |
| 1994 | 476 | #523 | 0.27 |
| 1993 | 536 | #474 | 0.30 |
| 1992 | 416 | #563 | 0.23 |
| 1991 | 524 | #467 | 0.28 |
| 1990 | 569 | #439 | 0.30 |
| 1989 | 563 | #436 | 0.31 |
| 1988 | 588 | #406 | 0.33 |
| 1987 | 487 | #455 | 0.28 |
| 1986 | 499 | #431 | 0.29 |
| 1985 | 496 | #440 | 0.29 |
| 1984 | 484 | #432 | 0.29 |
| 1983 | 460 | #447 | 0.28 |
| 1982 | 443 | #473 | 0.26 |
| 1981 | 446 | #476 | 0.27 |
| 1980 | 436 | #482 | 0.26 |
| 1979 | 405 | #498 | 0.25 |
| 1978 | 397 | #489 | 0.26 |
| 1977 | 431 | #458 | 0.28 |
| 1976 | 425 | #454 | 0.29 |
| 1975 | 454 | #436 | 0.31 |
| 1974 | 445 | #438 | 0.30 |
| 1973 | 595 | #356 | 0.41 |
| 1972 | 541 | #388 | 0.36 |
| 1971 | 494 | #423 | 0.30 |
| 1970 | 630 | #379 | 0.36 |
| 1969 | 591 | #387 | 0.35 |
| 1968 | 563 | #386 | 0.34 |
| 1967 | 575 | #383 | 0.35 |
| 1966 | 612 | #367 | 0.36 |
| 1965 | 494 | #420 | 0.28 |
| 1964 | 472 | #450 | 0.25 |
| 1963 | 458 | #451 | 0.24 |
| 1962 | 447 | #457 | 0.23 |
| 1961 | 376 | #504 | 0.19 |
| 1960 | 374 | #501 | 0.18 |
| 1959 | 294 | #572 | 0.15 |
| 1958 | 196 | #703 | 0.10 |
| 1957 | 68 | #1,274 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 50 | #1,505 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,481 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,877 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 37 | #1,623 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,937 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,483 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,672 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,859 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,370 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,467 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,036 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,725 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,765 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bridgette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bridgette has been given almost only to girls: 16 boys in 82 years of records.
Girls and boys named Bridgette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bridgette, and how old are they?
22,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 23,920 Americans ever recorded as Bridgette. The median Bridgette alive today is 42 years old; half are between 31 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 21,502 people named Bridgette (21,468 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,503 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,490 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,490 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,390 |
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 Bridgette born?
The states with the most babies named Bridgette are California, Texas and New York, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,557 | #1,760 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 1,998 | #1,817 | 1.1× |
| New York | 1,239 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 1,116 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 1,018 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 1,012 | #1,493 | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 909 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Georgia | 863 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 856 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 771 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Bridgette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bridgette is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1943 it was given 2.0 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 Bridgette with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 24,548 babies since 1880, Bridgette is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 88 of their 88 babies (100%), again the 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 Bridgette
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 Bridgette and names like it
- Compare Bridgette and BridgitteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBridgette peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bridgette since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Bridgette.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Bridgette alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.