Birgitte
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Danish: a female given name, equivalent to English Bridget or Swedish Birgitta
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/birɡ̊id̥ə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Birgitte is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 419(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 2.1K
- SESweden1 in 69as Birgitta
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Birgitte 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 419 (inferred from the name graph)
148,160 named Birgitta
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Birgitta in SE Sweden and Биргитта in FI Finland.
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
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Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Birgitte is read(measured from records)
Birgitte is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Danish72%
- English8.8%
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…
A female given name from Danish or Norwegian, equivalent to English Bridget.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Norwegian7.5%
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Birgitte 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 148,160as Birgitta | 1 in 69 | 148K | Birgitta | 10 |
| FI Finland | 14,254as Birgitta | 1 in 391 | 19K | Биргитта | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 14,022 | 1 in 419 | 14K | — | — |
| NO Norway | 2,635 | 1 in 2.1K | 9.8K | Birgitte | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 2,001as Birgitta | 1 in 8.6K | 2K | — | 3 |
| IS Iceland | 340as Birgitta | 1 in 1K | 340 | — | — |
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)
- Birgitte Andersenb. 1791DKStage actor and ballet dancer
- Birgitte Federspielb. 1925DKDanish actress (1925-2005)
- Birgitte Priceb. 1934DKDanish actress (1934–1997)
- Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucesterb. 1946GBwife of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
- Birgitte Victoria Svendsenb. 1957NONorwegian actress
- Karin Birgitte Bolten Jagdb. 1957DKDanish actress
- Birgitte Stærmoseb. 1963Danish film director
- Birgitte Haldb. 1964DKDanish film producer
- Lady Rose Windsorb. 1980GBnot in their usual namenoblewoman; youngest child of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester
- Birgitte Hjort Sørensenováb. 1982DKDanish actress, born 1982
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 31 sources across 17 countries.
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
- Where does the name Birgitte 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….
- How do you pronounce Birgitte?
- A machine transcription gives /birɡ̊id̥ə/ (IPA) for Danish.
- What does the name Birgitte mean?
- In Danish, a female given name, equivalent to English Bridget or Swedish Birgitta
- Is Birgitte a male or female name?
- Birgitte 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 Birgitte?
- In the etymology graph, Brigitte, Bridget and Birgit are forms of the same name in other languages; Britta, Birte and Birthe are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Birgitte 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 is Birgitte most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Birgitte is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 419 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Birgitte?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 14,022 people named Birgitte, about 1 in 419 residents.
What do you want to know about Birgitte?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/birgitteThe 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, “Birgitte”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.