Bridget
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 'high one'; name of St Bridget of Kildare (c
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɹɪdʒɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bridget is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 2.5K
- IEIreland≈1 in 2.6K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 522 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, 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)
'high one'; name of St Bridget of Kildare (c. 452-523).
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bridget 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Bridget | 25 |
| NG Nigeria | #442 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Bridget | 81 |
| US United States | #575 | 81,356 | 1 in 4.1K | 81K | Bridget | 522 |
| GB United Kingdom | #462 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 4 | Bridget | 253 |
| ZA South Africa | #746 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Bridget | 88 |
| AU Australia | #465 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 46 | Bridget | 218 |
| IE Ireland | #225 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Bridget | 112 |
| NZ New Zealand | #295 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 10 | Bridget | 122 |
| GY Guyana | — | 216 | 1 in 3.5K | 216 | — | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Bridget 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 English, Irish Gaelic: strong spirited; ancient Celtic goddess. Also the feminine form of Brian; St Brigid is one of Ireland’s patron saints.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Swedish, Se Birgitta.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Forme anglaise de Brigitte; du celtique brig- « haut, fort ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Forme anglaise de Brigitte, du gaélique Brigid, « élevée ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Irish, This name is not derived from the Christian name Brigid but is an abbreviated form of Uprichard. It is in Ireland since the seventeenth century, mainly in Ulster
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Bridget Bishopb. 1632GBwoman executed for witchcraft during Salem witch trials
- Bridget Dowlingb. 1891IEAdolf Hitler's sister-in-law via her marriage to Alois Hitler, Jr.
- Bridget Rileyb. 1931GBBritish painter (born 1931)
- Bridget O'Connorb. 1961GBBritish playwright and screenwriter (1961–2010)
- Bridget Hoffmanb. 1961USAmerican voice actress
- Bridget Fondab. 1964USAmerican actress
- Bridget Moynahanb. 1971USAmerican actress and model
- Bridget Everettb. 1972USAmerican singer and comedian
- Bridget Marquardtb. 1973USAmerican TV personality
- Bridget Reganb. 1982USAmerican actress
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 72 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 81K | #648 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 385 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 216 | #381 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 97 | #648 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2003 | 46 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2012 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 8 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2016 | 7 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2017 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 4 | #334 |
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 Bridget come from?
- 'high one'; name of St Bridget of Kildare (c. 452-523). Recorded by Irish first names.
- What are other forms of the name Bridget?
- In the etymology graph, Brigitte, Birgit and Bridgette are forms of the same name in other languages; Bidelia is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Bridget mean?
- Recorded meaning: 'high one'; name of St Bridget of Kildare (c.
- Is Bridget a male or female name?
- Bridget 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.
- How common is the name Bridget?
- In the United States, the national register counted 81,356 people named Bridget in 2020, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Bridget compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Bridget is the 225th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Bridget have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 248 thousand people named Bridget in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bridget.
- How do you pronounce Bridget?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹɪdʒɪt/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bridgetThe 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, “Bridget” — the 225th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.