Brigit
Brigit was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,238 Americans have been recorded with it between 1954 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Brigit and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 26 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brigit by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brigit?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,668, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1976, the peak
Brigit peaked in 1976, when 46 girls were given it, #1,938 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,668 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,754 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,114 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,230 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,274 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,140 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,445 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,411 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,274 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,956 | 10.1 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | #12,629 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,186 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,865 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,627 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 26 | #4,976 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,829 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,965 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,653 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,033 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,891 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,513 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,499 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,306 | 20.1 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,068 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,785 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,305 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,601 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,871 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,668 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,715 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,689 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,353 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,633 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,559 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,141 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,340 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,858 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,366 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 14 | #4,997 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,164 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,006 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,687 | 20.2 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,783 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,938 | 31.4 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,647 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,258 | 23.8 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,243 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,815 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,963 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,594 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,019 | 11.9 |
| 1968 | 19 | #2,975 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,711 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,527 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,972 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,413 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,187 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,932 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,971 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,372 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,875 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,549 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,235 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,823 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brigit a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brigit has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brigit: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brigit, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,238 Americans ever recorded as Brigit. The median Brigit alive today is 36 years old; half are between 26 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 1,263 people named Brigit (1,260 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,188 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 111 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 332 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 319 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 358 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 61 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,613 babies since 1880, Brigit is the most given (47% of them).
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 Brigit
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 Brigit and names like it
- Compare Brigit and BrigetBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBrigit peaked in 1976.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brigit since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Brigit.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brigit alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.