# Birgitte (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/birgitte/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Danish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Gitte |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 5 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Danish Birgitte and Norwegian Birgitte.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 5 | 6,337 |

## People named Birgitte

- Birgitte Federspiel, Danish actress (1925-2005)
- Birgitte Hanel, Danish rower
- Birgitte Thott, Danish philosopher, auther, and scholar (1610-1662)
- Birgitte Price, Danish actress (1934–1997)
- Birgitte Gøye, Danish noble
- Birgitte Cathrine Boye, Danish psalmist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.