Bridget Factsheet

Meaning
Irish via English - 'exalted one'

England and Wales statistics
Anglo-Saxon record: no entries
13th century: no entries
Earliest birth record: Bridget ...nies (b.1506)
1550-1690: High: #14 (1550); Low: no entries (1560, 1590, 1640-90); decline and disappearance
1840-1905: High: #48 (1840); Low: #111 (1905); decline
1914-1994: High: #79 (1934); Low: no entries (1954-94); slight rise then decline
2004: #638
2008: #790
2011: #1015 (34 births)

US statistics
1880-2011: High: #112 (1973); Low: #995 (1937); decline, rise, decline
2011: #472 (624 births)