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How popular is “Brigit” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brigit” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brigit” 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 “Brigit” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brigit” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brigit” 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
1954 5 0.000001256 5 100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 100%
1959 17 0.000004089 17 100%
1960 14 0.00000337 14 100%
1961 18 0.000004345 18 100%
1962 18 0.000004461 18 100%
1963 16 0.000004042 16 100%
1964 26 0.000006688 26 100%
1965 11 0.000003034 11 100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 100%
1967 21 0.000006186 21 100%
1968 19 0.000005624 19 100%
1969 20 0.000005755 20 100%
1970 17 0.000004714 17 100%
1971 23 0.000006701 23 100%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 100%
1973 20 0.000006629 20 100%
1974 35 0.000011513 35 100%
1975 18 0.000005961 18 100%
1976 46 0.00001516 46 100%
1977 29 0.00000913 29 100%
1978 31 0.000009767 31 100%
1979 28 0.000008416 28 100%
1980 18 0.000005226 18 100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 100%
1982 17 0.000004846 17 100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 100%
1984 17 0.000004873 17 100%
1985 19 0.000005323 19 100%
1986 17 0.000004779 17 100%
1987 13 0.000003605 13 100%
1988 15 0.000004059 15 100%
1989 19 0.000004942 19 100%
1990 20 0.00000506 20 100%
1991 21 0.000005391 21 100%
1992 27 0.000007029 27 100%
1993 30 0.000007957 30 100%
1994 34 0.000009146 34 100%
1995 28 0.000007646 28 100%
1996 26 0.000007129 26 100%
1997 35 0.000009653 35 100%
1998 34 0.000009244 34 100%
1999 35 0.000009475 35 100%
2000 32 0.000008466 32 100%
2001 31 0.000008281 31 100%
2002 26 0.000006955 26 100%
2003 25 0.000006575 25 100%
2004 17 0.000004449 17 100%
2005 26 0.000006762 26 100%
2006 19 0.000004803 19 100%
2007 19 0.000004753 19 100%
2008 15 0.000003816 15 100%
2009 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2010 18 0.00000487 18 100%
2011 14 0.000003827 14 100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 100%
2016 10 0.000002726 10 100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 100%

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