Birgitta
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Scandinavian Celtic goddess form of Bridget
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Birgitta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 69(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 391
- ISIceland1 in 1K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Birgitta itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 69 (inferred from the name graph)
148,160 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Биргитта in FI Finland and Birgitte in NO Norway.
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)
Scandinavian Celtic goddess form of Bridget
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Birgitta is read(measured from records)
Birgitta is one spelling over 4 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.
- Swedish54%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Birgitta in Swedish.
- English14%
Scandinavian Celtic goddess form of Bridget
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- German12%
) Birgitte: weibl. Vom., schwe dische, norwegische, dänische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Finnish6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Birgitta in Finnish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Birgitta 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.
148,160 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lisa Fonssagrives-Pennb. 1911SEnot in their usual nameSwedish model (1911–1992)
- Princess Birgitta of Swedenb. 1937SESwedish princess (1937-2024); elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- Lena Hjelm-Wallénb. 1943SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician and government minister
- Birgitta Sahlénb. 1953SESwedish academic
- Anna Hedenmob. 1961SEnot in their usual nameSwedish journalist
- Birgitta Wolffb. 1965DEGerman politician and economist
- Birgitta Jónsdóttirb. 1967ISIcelandic Poet, Writer, Editor, and Member of Parliament
- Birgitta Bergvall-Kårebornb. 1968SESwedish information systems academic
- Birgitta Ohlssonb. 1975SESwedish politician
- Eva Wahlströmb. 1980FInot in their usual nameFinnish boxer
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(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 148K | #13 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 43K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 43K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 42K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 42K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 42K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 42K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 42K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 42K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 37K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 19K | #130 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 14K | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Birgitta mean, and where does it come from?
- Scandinavian Celtic goddess form of Bridget Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Birgitta?
- In the etymology graph, Brigitte, Bridget and Birgit are forms of the same name in other languages; Britta, Brita and Birte are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Birgitta a male or female name?
- Birgitta 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.
- In which country does Birgitta have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 148 thousand people named Birgitta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled birgitta.
- Where is Birgitta most common?
- Birgitta is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 69 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Birgitta?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 148,160 people named Birgitta, about 1 in 69 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/birgittaThe 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, “Birgitta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.