Birgitta

Locally spelled Биргитта in FI Finland and Birgitte in NO Norway.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

• Swedish:/bɪrɡɪ˧˩t̪a˥˩/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Finnish:/ˈbirɡitːɑ/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Birgitta is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Swedish54%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Birgitta in Swedish.

• English14%

  Scandinavian Celtic goddess form of Bridget

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

• German12%

  ) Birgitte: weibl. Vom., schwe­ dische, norwegische, dänische Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Finnish6.4%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Birgitta in Finnish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Birgitta, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Hedvig
• Ebba
• Inga
• Hedda
• Cornelia

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

• Lisa Fonssagrives-Pennb. 1911SEnot in their usual nameSwedish model (1911–1992)
• Princess Birgitta of Swedenb. 1937SESwedish princess (1937-2024); elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
• Birgitta Jónsdóttirb. 1967ISIcelandic Poet, Writer, Editor, and Member of Parliament

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What are other forms of the name Birgitta?

In the etymology graph, Brigitte, Bridget and Birgit are forms of the same name in other languages; Britta, Brita and Birte are recorded short or pet forms.

What does the name Birgitta mean, and where does it come from?

Scandinavian Celtic goddess form of Bridget Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….

How do you pronounce Birgitta?

It depends on the language: in Swedish /bɪrɡɪ˧˩t̪a˥˩/; in Finnish /ˈbirɡitːɑ/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Birgitta a male or female name?

Birgitta is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Norway (SSB) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020), among others.

Which countries have the most people named Birgitta?

In Sweden, the national register counted about 148 thousand people named Birgitta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled birgitta. After it come Finland, Denmark, Norway and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Birgitta most common?

Birgitta is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 69 people carrying it.

How common is the name Birgitta?

In Sweden, the national register counted 148,160 people named Birgitta, about 1 in 69 residents.