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How popular is “Bridgitte” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bridgitte” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bridgitte” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Bridgitte” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Bridgitte” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Bridgitte” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Bridgitte” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bridgitte” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1958 11 0.000002661 11 100%
1959 13 0.000003127 13 100%
1960 29 0.000006982 29 100%
1961 30 0.000007242 30 100%
1962 15 0.000003717 15 100%
1963 18 0.000004548 18 100%
1964 16 0.000004116 16 100%
1965 20 0.000005517 20 100%
1966 21 0.000006042 21 100%
1967 23 0.000006775 23 100%
1968 30 0.00000888 30 100%
1969 27 0.000007769 27 100%
1970 23 0.000006377 23 100%
1971 19 0.000005536 19 100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 100%
1974 9 0.000002961 9 100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 100%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 100%
1979 11 0.000003306 11 100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 100%
1982 11 0.000003136 11 100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 100%
1987 15 0.00000416 15 100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1989 21 0.000005462 21 100%
1990 19 0.000004807 19 100%
1991 14 0.000003594 14 100%
1992 9 0.000002343 9 100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 100%
1995 15 0.000004096 15 100%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 100%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 100%
2000 12 0.000003175 12 100%
2001 7 0.00000187 7 100%
2002 6 0.000001605 6 100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 100%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 100%

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