Brigitta
Brigitta was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,133 among girls’ names; 551 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brigitta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brigitta?
#12,133 among girls’ names, 2025
Brigitta rose from #13,242 in 2015 to #12,133 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 4.4 per million.
17 babies in 1962, the peak
Brigitta peaked in 1962, when 17 girls were given it, #3,045 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,133 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,743 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,526 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,125 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,453 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,028 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,242 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,393 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,737 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,215 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #17,478 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,630 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,757 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,173 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,065 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,521 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,569 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,409 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,856 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,496 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,835 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,238 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,298 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,160 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,661 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,114 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,014 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,342 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,506 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,358 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,988 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,627 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,607 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,386 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,966 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,473 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,499 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,137 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,022 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,800 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,648 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,556 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,318 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,625 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,519 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,589 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,868 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,631 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,016 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,221 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,575 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,872 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,530 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,822 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,045 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,910 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,209 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,845 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,184 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,956 | 4.9 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,280 | 3.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,636 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brigitta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brigitta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brigitta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brigitta, and how old are they?
An estimated 518 Americans named Brigitta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 25 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,091 people named Brigitta (1,091 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 511 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 15,822 babies since 1880, Brigitta is the third most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 104 babies (6.7%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Brigitta
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 Brigitta and names like it
- Compare Brigitta and BrigitteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sBrigitta peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brigitta since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Brigitta.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Brigitta alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.