Brigitte
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: French form of Brigid, from Irish Celtic Brigit, meaning 'exalted one'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bʁiʒit/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brigitte is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 97th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 553(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 831
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 885
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 369 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 407 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
French form of Brigid, from Irish Celtic Brigit, meaning 'exalted one'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Brigitte is read(measured from records)
Brigitte 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.
- French47%
French form of Brigid, from Irish Celtic Brigit, meaning 'exalted one'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Du celtique brig- « haut, fort »; sainte Brigitte, fête le 1er février.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Origine celtique, « élevée »; issu de la sainte irlandaise Brigid.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Du gaélique Brigid, « élevée »; fête le 1er février.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du celtique Brighid; sainte Brigitte, invoquée contre les maux de ventre et pour une bonne mort.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- German29%
a female given name, equivalent to English Bridget
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Brigitte in English.
- Spanish5.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Brigitte in Spanish.
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.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Brigitte, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brigitte counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #108 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 553 | 203K | Brigitte | 369 |
| CM Cameroon | #97 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Brigitte | 24 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 407 | 693 | — | 1 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #903 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Brigitte | 17 |
| BE Belgium | #156 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 831 | 7 | Brigitte | 116 |
| US United States | — | 13,751 | 1 in 24K | 14K | Brigitte | 297 |
| CH Switzerland | #316 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 885 | 3 | Brigitte | 70 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bridget of Swedenb. 1303SEnot in their usual nameSwedish nun, mystic, and saint (c.1303–1373)
- Brigitte Helmb. 1906DEGerman actress (1908–1996)
- Brigitte Mirab. 1910DEGerman actress and singer (1910–2005)
- Brigitte Auberb. 1925FRFrench actress
- Brigitte Bardotb. 1934FRFrench actress, singer, animal rights activist (1934–2025)
- Marie Laforêtb. 1939FRnot in their usual nameFrench-Swiss singer and actress
- Brigitte Fosseyb. 1946FRFrench actress
- Brigitte Bierleinb. 1949ATAustrian jurist and politician, former federal chancellor of Austria and president of the Austrian constitutional court (1949–2024)
- Brigitte Macronb. 1953FRFrench teacher, spouse of French statesman Emmanuel Macron
- Brigitte Nielsenb. 1963DKDanish actress, model and singer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 86 sources across 51 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2023 | 203K | #2,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14K | #1,998 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 693 | #1,301 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 59 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10 | #1,998 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1954 | 10 | #523 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 7 | #939 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 2 | #1,399 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Brigitte?
- In the etymology graph, Bridget, Birgit and Bridgette are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Brigitte mean, and where does it come from?
- French form of Brigid, from Irish Celtic Brigit, meaning 'exalted one'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Brigitte?
- A machine transcription gives /bʁiʒit/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Brigitte a male or female name?
- Brigitte is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Brigitte have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 123 thousand people named Brigitte in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brigitte.
- How common is the name Brigitte?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,751 people named Brigitte in 2020, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Brigitte compared with other names?
- In France, Brigitte is the 108th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brigitteThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brigitte” — the 108th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.