girls:
91.6k births since 1880
#394 (93rd percentile)
boys:
150 births since 1968
#4436 (3rd percentile)
overall:
91.7k births since 1880
#728 (91st percentile)
The name Bridget is the #728 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 91,732 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #394 (93.1% percentile) for all time with 91,582 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,436 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 150 births since 1968.
Bridget has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1968 for boys).
The name Bridget has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Bridget reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 85.1% percentile (ranked #111) with 1,778 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 1,778 births per million (ranked 85.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1996, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Bridget ranks #598 for girls (36.9% percentile) with 214 births per million, which is 12.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Bridget reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #687) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bridget".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Bridget. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.0% confident that Bridget is pronounced as BRIH-jiht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BRIH-juht, at 26.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like B R IH1 JH IH0 T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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