Birgit
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A Chadic language spoken in southeastern Chad
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɪɐɟɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Birgit is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common given name.
- DKDenmark1 in 360(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 390
- ATAustria≈1 in 433
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
French Southern Territories, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
) Birgitt; Birgid; Bergit; Berit: in den i93oer-Jahren entlehnter weibl. Vom. nordischer Herkunft (
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Birgit is read(measured from records)
Birgit is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German84%
) Birgitt; Birgid; Bergit; Berit: in den i93oer-Jahren entlehnter weibl. Vom. nordischer Herkunft (
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- English5.8%
A Chadic language spoken in southeastern Chad.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Birgit counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #69 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 390 | 2 | Birgit | 244 |
| AT Austria | #75 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 433 | 4.4K | Birgit | 151 |
| DK Denmark | #84 | 16,284 | 1 in 360 | 16K | Birgit | 120 |
| SE Sweden | #308 | 16,008 | 1 in 637 | 16K | Birgit | 62 |
| CN China | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Birgit | 9 |
| TF French Southern Territories | #2 | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 5 | — | Birgit | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Birgit is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Birgit är ursprungligen en nordisk och tysk smekform till → Birgitta. En känd namnbärare var den svenska operasångerskan Birgit Nilsson (1918–2005). I den rikssvenska almanackan 13 oktober och i den finlandssvenska 7 oktober.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Forme nordique de Brigitte, du gaélique Briganti(a), « élevée ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Forme germanique de Brigitte; du celtique brig- « haut, fort ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Norwegian, a female given name, short for Birgitte or Birgitta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Birgit Cullbergb. 1908SESwedish ballet choreographer (1908-1999)
- Birgit Nilssonb. 1918SESwedish opera singer (1918–2005)
- Birgit Dollb. 1958ATAustrian actress (1958–2015)
- Birgit Treiberb. 1960DEEast German swimmer
- Birgit Sippelb. 1960DEGerman politician
- Birgit Fischerb. 1962DEEast German kayaker
- Birgit Malsack-Winkemannb. 1964DEGerman far-right politician
- Birgit Prinzb. 1977DEGerman footballer (born 1977)
- Birgit Minichmayrb. 1977ATAustrian actress and singer
- Birgit Õigemeelb. 1988EEEstonian singer (born 1988)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 16K | #32 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16K | #276 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 11K | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2023 | 4.4K | #1,838 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 2 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2023 | 1 | #2,151 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2025 | 1 | #3 |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Birgit?
- A machine transcription gives /bɪɐɟɪt/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Birgit mean?
- In English, A Chadic language spoken in southeastern Chad.
- Is Birgit a male or female name?
- Birgit 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 are other forms of the name Birgit?
- In the etymology graph, Brigitte, Bridget and Bridgette are forms of the same name in other languages; Britta, Brit and Birte are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Birgit have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 206 thousand people named Birgit in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled birgit.
- How common is the name Birgit?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 16,284 people named Birgit, about 1 in 360 residents.
- How common is Birgit compared with other names?
- In Germany, Birgit is the 69th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/birgitThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Birgit” — the 69th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.