Brigitte

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Brigitte is a given name, most frequently recorded in France, where it is the 93rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: French form of Brigid, from Irish Celtic Brigit, meaning 'exalted one'.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 482◐
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.6K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.9K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈20K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
352 ●

441K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.5K ◐

Ecuador

Meaning & origin●

French form of Brigid, from Irish Celtic Brigit, meaning 'exalted one'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Brigitte is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#931,095,202397K rec.—203KBrigitte352
US United States—13,74114K rec.1 in 24K14KBrigitte274
BE Belgium#1629,5389.4K rec.—7Brigitte114
CA Canada#9997,1716.3K rec.—1Brigitte142
EC Ecuador—3,786△58 rec.1 in 4.5K3.8KBrigitte20
CH Switzerland#2282,7041.5K rec.—3Brigitte69
PE Peru—1,706828 rec.——Brigitte34
NL Netherlands—1,5631.1K rec.—7.2KBrigitte65
PH Philippines—1,2861.1K rec.——Brigitte34
GP Guadeloupe#1379867 rec.—5Brigitte5
ES Spain—9072.9K rec.1 in 55K907Brigitte59
SE Sweden—887△70 rec.1 in 12K887—16

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Languages●

  • French1.1M64%
  • German328K18%
  • English147K8%
  • Spanish71K4%
  • Western Frisian18K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French1,131,13264%
German328,14918%
English146,6718%
Spanish70,5164%
Western Frisian17,6581%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Brigitte is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name556K records spelled Brigitte21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Netherlands, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

    Also written Bŕigitte, Brigitté, Brígitte, Brígítte, Brigítte

  • a separate given name9.4K records spelled Brigitte2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada

    Also written Brígitte

  • Polish given name3.2K records spelled Brigitte24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Russian

    Also written Bridgette, Брижит, Бригитте, Брігітте, Брижитт

  • Finnish given name2.3K records spelled Brigitte4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Switzerland, Hungary, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Brïgittë

  • Croatian given name1.3K records spelled Brigitte10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Switzerland, Belgium

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Brižit, Брижит

73 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Brigitte is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, a female given name, equivalent to English Bridget

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Du celtique brig- « haut, fort »; sainte Brigitte, fête le 1er février.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Origine celtique, « élevée »; issu de la sainte irlandaise Brigid.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Du gaélique Brigid, « élevée »; fête le 1er février.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Du celtique Brighid; sainte Brigitte, invoquée contre les maux de ventre et pour une bonne mort.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0102030401940196019802000202034 · 1993

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Brigitte in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1933–2021
Yearrecords
19331
19361
19371
19381
19391
19401
19431
19441
19451
19462
19471
19491
19502
19521
19531
19541
19553
19561
19585
19599
196012
196114
196221
196311
196417
196514
196610
196712
196811
196919
197016
197113
19729
197317
197420
197512
197616
197710
197816
197913
198011
198114
198212
198312
19849
198512
19869
198723
198828
198917
199024
199127
199230
199334
199432
199511
199614
199720
199820
19994
200011
200112
20029
200312
20045
20059
20065
20074
20084
20098
20108
20116
201210
20134
20144
20152
20163
20171
20185
20194
20216

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 81 years between 1933–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

12001400160018002000Bridget of Sweden, b. 1303Brigitte Helm, b. 1906Brigitte Mira, b. 1910Brigitte Auber, b. 1925Brigitte Bardot, b. 1934Marie Laforêt, b. 1939Brigitte Fossey, b. 1946Brigitte Bierlein, b. 1949Brigitte Macron, b. 1953Brigitte Nielsen, b. 1963

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 85 sources across 51 countries.

Official registers attesting Brigitte
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2023203K#2,600
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202014K#1,998
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—7.2K#512
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243.8K#418
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—907#3,049
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—888#1,524
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—887#1,845
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024693#1,301
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—470#2,627
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020419—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—338#728
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—303#2,794

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 876 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Brigitte?
We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Brigitte (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Brigitte have the most bearers?
Brigitte is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled brigitte.
How common is Brigitte compared with other names?
In France, Brigitte is the 93rd most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
Is Brigitte a male or female name?
Brigitte is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Brigitte mean?
Recorded meaning: French form of Brigid, from Irish Celtic Brigit, meaning 'exalted one'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brigitte” — the 93rd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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