girls:
23.7k births since 1943
#925 (84th percentile)
boys:
16 births since 1966
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
23.8k births since 1943
#1648 (79th percentile)
The name Bridgette is the #1,648 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 23,757 recorded births since 1943. This represents the 78.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #925 (83.8% percentile) for all time with 23,741 births since 1943. For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1966.
Bridgette first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1943 (1943 for girls and 1966 for boys). Birth data for Bridgette is available in 80 out of the 81 years between 1943 and 2023 (80 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Bridgette has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Bridgette reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 55.1% percentile (ranked #333) with 383 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 383 births per million (ranked 55.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Bridgette ranks #875 for girls (7.6% percentile) with 44 births per million, which is 11.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Bridgette reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bridgette".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Bridgette. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.0% confident that Bridgette is pronounced as BRIH-jeht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is brih-JEHT, at 16.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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