Bridie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A Scottish meat pastry, similar to a Cornish pasty
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɹɪdi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bridie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Australia than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 51K
- USUnited States1 in 765K
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.
- Australia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A Scottish meat pastry, similar to a Cornish pasty.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bridie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 5 | Bridie | 126 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | listed | Bridie | 151 |
| IE Ireland | #404 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Bridie | 54 |
| US United States | — | 435 | 1 in 765K | 423 | Bridie | 190 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 330K | — | Bridie | 29 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 22 | Bridie | 55 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Bridie | 13 |
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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)
Bridie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sco, a meat pastry originating from Forfar, traditionally shortcrust
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)
- Bridie O'Mullaneb. 1895IErecruiting officer for Cumann na mBan
- Bridie O'Flahertyb. 1917IEIrish politician (1917-2006)
- Bridie Gallagherb. 1924IEIrish singer (1924–2012)
- Bridie Carterb. 1970AUAustralian actress
- Bridie O'Donnellb. 1974AUcyclist
- Bridie Keanb. 1987AUAustralian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player
- Bridie O’Gormanb. 1998AUrugby player
- Bridie Kennedyb. 1999Australian rules footballer
- Bridie RabanGBacademic, early childhood education
- Bridie SissonNZNew Zealand 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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 423 | #22,738 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2007 | 22 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1988 | 15 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1998 | 13 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #22,738 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2005 | 12 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1996 | 12 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1986 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 12 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2006 | 11 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1994 | 11 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1991 | 11 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Bridie mean, and where does it come from?
- A Scottish meat pastry, similar to a Cornish pasty. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Bridie a male or female name?
- Bridie 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 Bridie?
- In the etymology graph, Bridget, Bridgette and Gitte are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Bridie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹɪdi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bridie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Bridie in Australia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bridie.
- How common is the name Bridie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 435 people named Bridie in 2020, about 1 in 765 thousand residents.
- How common is Bridie compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Bridie is the 404th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bridie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bridieThe 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, “Bridie” — the 404th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.