Girl · Old Irish
Brigid
Say it: BREE-id
Meaning
From Old Irish Brigit, from Proto-Celtic *brigantī 'the high, exalted one'; the same root gives the British goddess name Brigantia.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Honoured through the cult of Saint Brigid, it became one of the commonest Irish girls' names in the early modern period, often anglicized as Bridget.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 6,206 babies given this name since 1917
- At its height in 2000, about 1 in 13,800 girls
- 71 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Bríd, Brighid, Brigit
| English | Bridget |
|---|---|
| Welsh | Ffraid |
| French | Brigitte |
| Swedish | Birgitta |
| Polish | Brygida |
Famous bearers
- Saint Brigid of Kildare, patron saint of Ireland
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- The Irish annals and early Irish literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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