Bridgette
Bridgette reached its high-water mark in 1970 at number 379, and has been recorded 23,920 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,117th. About 23,000 Bridgettes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Bridgette boys named Bridgette
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 23,920
- Estimated living today
- 23,000
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 379th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,117th
- First recorded
- 1943
- Girls / boys
- 23,904 / 16
How old the living Bridgettes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 23,920 babies given the name since 1943, about 23,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 990 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Variant of Bridget. See -ette.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Bridgettes
- Bridgette Wilson (born 1973)American actress, singer, and model
- Bridgette B (born 1983)Spanish pornographic actress
- Bridgette Andersen (1975–1997)American actress and model
- Bridgette Kerkove (born 1977)American pornographic actress, film director and producer
- Bridgette Gusterson (born 1973)Australian water polo player and coach
- Bridgette Gordon (born 1967)American basketball player
People named Bridgette with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Bridgette is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bridgette is most concentrated in Louisiana (2.4×), Florida (1.6×), South Carolina (1.5×), Georgia (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular girls’ names the year Bridgette peaked:
Bridgette elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Bridgette | 38 | 3,533rd |
| France girls | Bridgette | 15 | 3,877th |
| Ireland girls | Bridgette | 6 | 466th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Bridgette against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.