Bridget
Just 26 women in Poland carry it, so meeting one would stick with you. Celtic at root, it means "the exalted one", and Poland already has its own form of it: Brygida.
Bridget Pronunciation
Bridget is pronounced BREED-get (/ˈbridgɛt/).
What Bridget means
Where Bridget comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bridget grew from Celtic roots, from the name of the goddess Brighid, which meant something close to "the exalted one." The old sense was height and rank. In Polish the meaning survives as dostojna, wysoka. Long before it belonged to any English speaker, it belonged to a figure the early Irish honoured, and the Christian saint Brigid of Kildare took the name into the church.
The English cared for it and made it their own. From the medieval English form come the everyday shapes, Bridie and Biddy among them, worn by ordinary women for centuries. The Polish register keeps the variant Brygida, closer to the Latin spelling.
One documented bearer stands out. Bridget of Sweden, the fourteenth-century mystic and founder of the Bridgettine order, carried the name across Europe and gave it a second life on the continent. A Polish child listed as Brygida on a class register inherits both lines, the Irish goddess and the Swedish saint. The meaning stays the same underneath the spellings: the exalted one, dostojna and wysoka.
How many people are named Bridget
1 in 867071 women in Poland is named Bridget. 26 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8253 among female names.
Bridget as a middle name
Bridget is a first name for 26 women in Poland and a middle name for another 23, a 53/47 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1482nd, between Bogumila (23) and Brigitta (23).
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#1480 Andromeda23
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#1481 Bogumila23
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#1482 Bridget23
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#1483 Brigitta23
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#1484 Ditta23