# Brigid (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/brigid/  
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 | Irish |
| Meaning | “high”, “exalted” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbɹɪ.d͡ʒɪd/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,504 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 6,504 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 50, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Irish Brighid, from Old Irish Brigit, from Proto-Celtic *Brigantī (“high, exalted”).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 79 | 2,351 |
| 2012 | 86 | 2,192 |
| 2013 | 75 | 2,413 |
| 2014 | 86 | 2,200 |
| 2015 | 80 | 2,323 |
| 2016 | 79 | 2,367 |
| 2017 | 75 | 2,406 |
| 2018 | 73 | 2,441 |
| 2019 | 77 | 2,335 |
| 2020 | 72 | 2,420 |
| 2021 | 46 | 3,399 |
| 2022 | 56 | 2,965 |
| 2023 | 67 | 2,623 |
| 2024 | 65 | 2,672 |
| 2025 | 61 | 2,784 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 7 | 2,096 |
| 1997 | 5 | 2,738 |
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 1999 | 5 | 2,770 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |
| 2002 | 4 | 3,409 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4,294 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 |

## People named Brigid

- Brigid Brannagh, American actress
- Brigid Brophy, British novelist, literary critic, polemicist (1929–1995)
- Brigid Bazlen, American actress (1944-1989)
- Brigid Berlin, American actress and artist (1939-2020)
- Angela Lansbury, British actress (1925–2022)
- Princess Antonia of Prussia, British aristocrat and philanthropist

## 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.