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Brianna vs Bridgit

American parents have registered 265,237 Briannas since 1880, against 1,275 Bridgits. Brianna is still ahead, with 1,372 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Brianna against Bridgit, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Brianna Bridgit

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 70 years in which either name was published, Brianna for 55 years and Bridgit for 15 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Brianna Bridgit
Total US births 265,2371,275
Most in one year 12,89841
Babies in 2025 1,372under 5
Estimated living today 262,0001,200
Median age today 2444
Peak year 20001966
Best rank 15th girls1,766th girls
Rank in 2025 222ndunranked
First recorded 19631955
Girls / boys 264,799 / 4381,275 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Bridgits alive today are over 44; half the Briannas are over 24. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Brianna and Bridgit.