Female name
Brigitte
9,165 births (United States, 1880–2025), peaking in 1960. Expression number: 9.
Origin
From Irish Gaelic Brighid, which gives the variant Brigide, Italian Brigida, etc., from Saint Brigid of Ireland, a fifth-century Christian saint. The variant with \t\ is Germanic and comes from Saint Bridget of Sweden, in Swedish Birgitta, founder of the Order of the Most Holy Savior in 1363 and author of seven hundred revelations received from Christ or the Virgin.Translated by Arcanes from the French Wiktionnaire, entry “Brigitte”, text and translation under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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How many babies received it
From the official birth registers.
In the United States
Peak in 1960: 314 births. 9,165 births from 1880 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. It really came into use around 1953. It is still given: 306 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, public domain.
Elsewhere in the world
The name in the birth records of the 10 countries we track. The period covered varies from country to country.
| Country | Births | Period | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 202,715 | 1900–2025 | 1st in 1959 |
| Switzerland | 19,409* | 1915–2025 | — |
| Quebec | 861 | 1980–2025 | 77th in 1981 |
| Austria | 693 | 1984–2025 | 76th in 1984 |
| Argentina | 582 | 2012–2023 | — |
| Berlin | 110 | 2012–2023 | — |
* These are the people living in the country, counted by year of birth, not the number of births.
Source: INSEE, Fichier des prénoms, Etalab Open Licence 2.0; Federal Statistical Office, First names of the population by year of birth, free use with attribution; Retraite Québec, Banque de prénoms, CC BY 4.0; Statistik Austria, Vornamen, CC BY 4.0; RENAPER, Nombres propios en Argentina, CC BY 4.0 (the registry doesn't record sex); Open Data Berlin, Häufige Vornamen, CC BY 3.0 DE (every name a child carries, not only the first).
The numbers of the name
Each letter has a value: A = 1, B = 2… I = 9, then J = 1 again (Pythagorean method). We add them up, then reduce to a single digit, except 11, 22 and 33.
■ vowel · ■ consonant
Expression
All the letters: talents, the way you act.
9
humanity, generosity, completion
2 + 9 + 9 + 7 + 9 + 2 + 2 + 5 = 45 → 9
Soul
The vowels: what drives you deep down.
5
freedom, change, movement
9 + 9 + 5 = 23 → 5
Personality
The consonants: what others notice first.
22
the large-scale builder (master number)
2 + 9 + 7 + 2 + 2 = 22
- Digits missing from the name
- 1, 3, 4, 6, 8
- Most frequent digit
- 2 · cooperation, sensitivity, connection
The meaning of the numbers comes from numerological tradition; it isn't a measure of your personality. A full portrait needs your first and middle names, your last name at birth, and your date of birth. How we calculate
Your name and theirs
The number of each name, and the number of the bond, which comes from adding them together. A symbolic game: what your two names say together, to be read as a metaphor, not as a verdict on your relationship.