Brigida — girls' name

What the Data Says About Brigida

The Social Security Administration has registered 660 babies named Brigida between 1911 and 2009, spanning 99 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Brigida currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 19 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brigida performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 118 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Brigida shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 55 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Brigida in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brigida in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 660 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.