girls:
9k births since 1946
#1705 (70th percentile)
overall:
9k births since 1946
#2843 (63rd percentile)
The name Brigitte is the #2,843 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,024 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 63.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,705 (70.2% percentile) for all time with 9,024 births since 1946.
Brigitte first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (first recorded for girls in 1946). Birth data for Brigitte is available in 77 out of the 78 years between 1946 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Brigitte reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 36.1% percentile (ranked #493) with 151 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 161 births per million (ranked 34.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Brigitte ranks #895 for girls (5.5% percentile) with 33 births per million, which is 20.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brigitte".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Brigitte. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 24.0% confident that Brigitte is pronounced as brih-ZHIHT, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is brih-GIHT, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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