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Brigita

“high, exalted”

Language contexts for this entry: Spanish, Czech, Danish and 6 more

feminineLatin script

[ˈbrɪɡɪta] · Czech

Origin: Proto-Celtic
9 language contexts: Spanish Czech Danish +6 more
Follow the evidence: 8 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Brigita

Brigita is a feminine given name documented in Spanish, Czech, Danish and 6 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Proto-Celtic via Old Irish, with the stated meaning “high, exalted”.

3 source accounts

Proto-Celtic origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “high, exalted”

Ultimately from Old Irish Brigit, from Proto-Celtic *Brigantī (“high, exalted”).

Follow the language links in this account

Read from more recent borrowed forms toward older source forms. This is a derivation account, not a dated timeline.

Old Irish
Proto-Celtic

Only explicit language links are shown. The full passage may also discuss word roots, comparisons or uncertain proposals.

Proto-language forms marked with an asterisk in the source are reconstructions, rather than dated records of a person using the name.

Read the cited Wiktionary entry

Sources for this account (6)

Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Explore 2 more accountsHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

English Wiktionary accountSource-reportedFirst recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1510. Cognate with English Bridget.

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1510. Cognate with English Bridget.

Sources for this account (1)

Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Chinese Wiktionary accountSource-reported作為拉脫維亞人名，最早記錄於1510年。同源詞包括英語 Bridget。

作為拉脫維亞人名，最早記錄於1510年。同源詞包括英語 Bridget。

Sources for this account (1)

Chinese Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Documented usage

View usage notes (9)

Feminine usage · Wikidata Q19816203
Feminine usage in Czech · Wiktionary: Brigita
Feminine usage in Lithuanian · Wiktionary: Brigita
Feminine usage in Latvian · Wiktionary: Brigita
Feminine usage in Serbo-Croatian · Wiktionary: Brigita
Feminine usage in Slovak · Wiktionary: Brigita
Feminine usage in Danish · Greek Wiktionary: Brigita
Feminine usage in Spanish · Greek Wiktionary: Brigita
Feminine usage in Slovene · Greek Wiktionary: Brigita

Explore all 9 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Brigita” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q19816203.

Name day: 02-01 (Latvia).

All pronunciation details (8)

[ˈbrɪɡɪta] — Czech
/ˈbrɪɡɪta/ — Czech
[bʲrʲɪɡʲɪˈtɐ] — Lithuanian
/brǐɡita/ — Serbo-Croatian
[ˈbriɡita] — Slovak
/briɡita/ — Slovak
/ˈbriɡita/ — Slovak
/ˈbrɪɡɪta/ — Slovene

02 / Across borders

Where Brigita is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Brigita’s connections around the world.

5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2009: 5 girls (rank 17294).

Explore United States

4 of 8 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

South Australia

1944–2017 Spelling: BRIGITA

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2003: 1; births; Rank #739
Peak year: 1971; 2 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Attorney-General's Department, South Australia · South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017

No rounding stated; amounts are integers (valueStatus=observed).

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

BRIGITA in South Australia, girls: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	1	436	observed
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	1	540	observed
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	1	598	observed
1959	1	625	observed
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	1	665	observed
1962	1	647	observed
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	1	674	observed
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	2	471	observed
1972	1	722	observed
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	2	465	observed
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	1	691	observed
1991	1	669	observed
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	1	739	observed
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “BRIGITA” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Dataset record, verbatim: « List of male and female baby names in South Australia from 1944 to 2024. The annual data for baby names is published January/February each year. » Files used: the 1944-2013 archive (female_/male_cyYYYY_top.csv) and the 2014-2017 per-year CSVs (2016: the 'amended' files).
Rounding: No rounding stated; amounts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression: No threshold is stated by the publisher. The lists include names with an Amount of 1 (see notes), i.e. no minimum-count suppression is visible; whether the lists are complete is not stated (the linked metadata document returned an error). Absence of a name is 'not listed', never zero.
Ranking: Position as published, preserved verbatim; never recomputed. A leading '=' marks a tie (stored as the number after '='); see notes for the observed pattern.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Brigita Bukovec
born 1970
Slovene athletics competitor (born 1970)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Brigita with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q19816203CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: BritaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates6

South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Opening name…

About Brigita

Brigita is a feminine given name documented in Spanish, Czech, Danish and 6 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Proto-Celtic via Old Irish, with the stated meaning “high, exalted”.

3 source accounts

Proto-Celtic origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “high, exalted”

Ultimately from Old Irish Brigit, from Proto-Celtic *Brigantī (“high, exalted”).

Follow the language links in this account

Read from more recent borrowed forms toward older source forms. This is a derivation account, not a dated timeline.

Old Irish
Proto-Celtic

Only explicit language links are shown. The full passage may also discuss word roots, comparisons or uncertain proposals.

Proto-language forms marked with an asterisk in the source are reconstructions, rather than dated records of a person using the name.

Read the cited Wiktionary entry

Sources for this account (6)

Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Explore 2 more accountsHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

English Wiktionary accountSource-reportedFirst recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1510. Cognate with English Bridget.

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1510. Cognate with English Bridget.

Sources for this account (1)

Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Chinese Wiktionary accountSource-reported作為拉脫維亞人名，最早記錄於1510年。同源詞包括英語 Bridget。

作為拉脫維亞人名，最早記錄於1510年。同源詞包括英語 Bridget。

Sources for this account (1)

Chinese Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Documented usage

View usage notes (9)

Feminine usage · Wikidata Q19816203
Feminine usage in Czech · Wiktionary: Brigita
Feminine usage in Lithuanian · Wiktionary: Brigita
Feminine usage in Latvian · Wiktionary: Brigita
Feminine usage in Serbo-Croatian · Wiktionary: Brigita
Feminine usage in Slovak · Wiktionary: Brigita
Feminine usage in Danish · Greek Wiktionary: Brigita
Feminine usage in Spanish · Greek Wiktionary: Brigita
Feminine usage in Slovene · Greek Wiktionary: Brigita

Explore all 9 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Brigita” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q19816203.

Name day: 02-01 (Latvia).

All pronunciation details (8)

[ˈbrɪɡɪta] — Czech
/ˈbrɪɡɪta/ — Czech
[bʲrʲɪɡʲɪˈtɐ] — Lithuanian
/brǐɡita/ — Serbo-Croatian
[ˈbriɡita] — Slovak
/briɡita/ — Slovak
/ˈbriɡita/ — Slovak
/ˈbrɪɡɪta/ — Slovene

Where Brigita is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Brigita’s connections around the world.

5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2009: 5 girls (rank 17294).

Explore United States

4 of 8 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

South Australia

1944–2017 Spelling: BRIGITA

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2003: 1; births; Rank #739
Peak year: 1971; 2 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Attorney-General's Department, South Australia · South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017

No rounding stated; amounts are integers (valueStatus=observed).

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

BRIGITA in South Australia, girls: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	1	436	observed
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	1	540	observed
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	1	598	observed
1959	1	625	observed
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	1	665	observed
1962	1	647	observed
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	1	674	observed
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	2	471	observed
1972	1	722	observed
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	2	465	observed
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	1	691	observed
1991	1	669	observed
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	1	739	observed
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Dataset record, verbatim: « List of male and female baby names in South Australia from 1944 to 2024. The annual data for baby names is published January/February each year. » Files used: the 1944-2013 archive (female_/male_cyYYYY_top.csv) and the 2014-2017 per-year CSVs (2016: the 'amended' files).
Rounding: No rounding stated; amounts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression: No threshold is stated by the publisher. The lists include names with an Amount of 1 (see notes), i.e. no minimum-count suppression is visible; whether the lists are complete is not stated (the linked metadata document returned an error). Absence of a name is 'not listed', never zero.
Ranking: Position as published, preserved verbatim; never recomputed. A leading '=' marks a tie (stored as the number after '='); see notes for the observed pattern.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q19816203CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: BrigitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: BritaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates6

South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Brigita

Proto-Celtic origin

Where Brigita is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

South Australia

History

Notable bearers

Brigita Bukovec

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Brigita

Proto-Celtic origin

Where Brigita is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

South Australia

History

Notable bearers

Brigita Bukovec

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page