Bridie
Bridie was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 374 Americans have been recorded with it between 1909 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bridie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bridie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bridie is “a female given name.”
A Celtic diminutive of Bridget.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bridie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,296, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1918, the peak
Bridie peaked in 1918, when 12 girls were given it, #2,697 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #11,296 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,594 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,815 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,437 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,751 | 3.7 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,688 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,009 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,936 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,409 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,276 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #15,732 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,817 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,829 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,916 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,518 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,621 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,407 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,239 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,559 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,526 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,986 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,596 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,220 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,789 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,670 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,954 | 5.2 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,568 | 6.9 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,150 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,634 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,456 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,147 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,900 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,874 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,029 | 3.2 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,409 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,761 | 9.6 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,957 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,529 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,384 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,424 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,807 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,894 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,926 | 5.9 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,691 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,056 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,443 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,009 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,317 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,697 | 10.4 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,126 | 8.3 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,475 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,243 | 7.9 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,248 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,674 | 10.8 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,989 | 17.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bridie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bridie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bridie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bridie, and how old are they?
An estimated 222 Americans named Bridie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (59% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 435 people named Bridie (423 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 202 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 15,874 babies since 1880, Bridie is the third most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 457 babies recorded by SSA was a Bridie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Bridie and names like it
- Compare Bridie and BirdieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sBridie peaked in 1918.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bridie since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Bridie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Bridie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.