Brigida
Just 81 women in Poland carry the Italian spelling Brigida, and no girls have been given it this century. From Latin, it means "exalted one", and Poles far more often meet its home-grown form, Brygida.
Brigida Pronunciation
Brigida is pronounced bree-GEE-dah (/briˈgida/).
What Brigida means
Where Brigida comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Brigida reaches Polish name-books with a Latin label, and the meaning handed down is direct: the high one, the exalted one. The sense sits in the name before any story attaches to it. Polish keeps a near twin on the shelf, Brygida, and the two trade places on official forms without anyone blinking.
The pull of the name is Italian. Brigida sounds at home in Italy, where it has long belonged to saints and ordinary women alike, and the Swedish saint Bridget, who died in Rome in 1373, is known there as Santa Brigida. From that soil the name traveled north with a settled, dignified ring.
In a Polish class register, a Brygida and a Brigida can sit two lines apart, one letter between them. On the day of imieniny the difference vanishes and both answer to the same greeting. The name still says what it said at the start: high, exalted, standing tall.
How many people are named Brigida
1 in 278319 women in Poland is named Brigida. 81 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3933 among female names.
Brigida as a middle name
Brigida is a first name for 81 women in Poland and a middle name for another 59, a 58/42 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 883rd, between Annette (59) and Celeste (59).
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#881 Zygfryda60
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#882 Annette59
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#883 Brigida59
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#884 Celeste59
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#885 Jutta59