Brighid
Brighid was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,486 among girls’ names; 530 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brighid by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brighid?
#13,486 among girls’ names, 2025
Brighid fell from #10,273 in 2015 to #13,486 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 3.7 per million.
25 babies in 2004, the peak
Brighid peaked in 2004, when 25 girls were given it, #5,083 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,486 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,768 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,667 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,548 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,266 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,452 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,228 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,273 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,012 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,716 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 15 | #7,883 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,604 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,705 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,090 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,185 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,643 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,389 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,988 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,083 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,264 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,746 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,108 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,853 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,689 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,428 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,246 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,096 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,475 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,365 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,561 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,686 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,823 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,158 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,196 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,528 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,209 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,713 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,242 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,180 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,412 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,925 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,850 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,125 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,634 | 4.6 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,226 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brighid a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brighid has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brighid: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brighid, and how old are they?
An estimated 520 Americans named Brighid and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 548 people named Brighid (545 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 506 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Brighid?
Brighid is a less common spelling of Brigid: SSA has recorded 530 Brighid and 6,504 Brigid since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 7,034 babies since 1880, Brighid is the second most given (7.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 67 babies (9.0%), 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 Brighid
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 Brighid and names like it
- Compare Brighid and BrigidBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrighid peaked in 2004.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brighid since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Brighid.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brighid alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.