How rare is the name Brigid?

6,302 people in the United States have the first name Brigid, about 1 in 47,926. It ranks #3,365 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

BRIGID

#3,365

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,302
About
1 in 47,926
This common or more
82.2%
Who bears it

Of the 6,302 people named Brigid, 92.1% reported their origin as White, 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 1.8% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Brigid peaked in 2000, when 132 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19172025
Peak year
2000
Births that year
132
In 2025*
61 ▼54%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,504 babies have been given the name since 1917. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Brigid by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,834. The largest share of babies named Brigid, 26.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1910s#10,9266
1920s#13,8275
1930s#7,00142
1940s#3,720169
1950s#2,345526
1960s#1,834962
1970s#2,538641
1980s#2,396852
1990s#2,6251,033
2000s#3,0951,109
2010s#4,126792
2020s#4,881367
Greatest Generation 1901–270.2%
Silent Generation 1928–451.6%
Baby boom 1946–6417.5%
Generation X 1965–8018.1%
Millennials 1981–9622.4%
Generation Z 1997–1226.1%
2013 and later14%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Brigid is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Brigid has been most common in New York (3.4×), Illinois (3×), and Massachusetts (3×), and least common in Texas (0.22×).

3,454 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Brigid

#3,363 Ekaterina · 6,313#3,364 Sherrill · 6,311#3,366 Rodrick · 6,296#3,367 Holland · 6,295

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Brigid, most common first.

#5,903 Brigida · 2,804#10,514 Brigit · 1,263#11,542 Brigido · 1,105#19,341 Brighid · 548

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