Brighid
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- BREE-id
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Brighid is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “exalted one”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Brighid mean?
Irish: older Irish spelling of Brigid
“exalted one”
Name of the Celtic goddess of poetry and smithcraft and of St Brigid of Kildare, a patron saint of Ireland.
Is Brighid a girl's or a boy's name?
Brighid is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Brighid in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Brighid, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2004, with 25 girls. It first appears in the records in 1975.
Half of all the girls named Brighid in the US since 1880 were born between 1991 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
Brighid in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,105 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,282 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,058 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,202 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,692 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,062 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,802 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,655 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,355 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,224 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,059 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,434 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,313 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,491 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,645 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,802 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,125 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,154 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,381 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,153 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,676 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,221 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,147 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,369 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,884 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,788 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,008 |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,565 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,065 |
Nicknames for Brighid
Names like Brighid
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan Cassidy Brynn Devyn Keegan Brenna Brianna Brooklyn Bree Regan Mckenna Keely
Names related to Brighid
More Irish names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Brighid: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/brighid, updated 20 October 2026.