Brigitta
Only about 36 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. Germanic at root, from the same source as Brygida, with a meaning that reads "exalted" or "high".
Brigitta Pronunciation
Brigitta is pronounced bree-GEET-tah (/briˈgitta/).
What Brigitta means
Where Brigitta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Brigitta grows from a Germanic root that means high, exalted. The short sense carried down to Polish speakers as wysoka, dostojna, potężna. A person given this name is placed under a word about height and standing, not about softness.
In Poland the name mostly travels under its variant, Brygida. Saint Bridget of Sweden, known here as Brygida Szwedzka, gave the form a firm anchor. She founded a religious order in the fourteenth century and was later named a patron of Europe. Her feast falls on 23 July, so a Brygida marks her imieniny then.
Brigitta itself keeps a more formal, foreign ring for Polish ears. Read a class register and Brygida is the one you expect. The double t of Brigitta signals a spelling closer to the Latin and Germanic record, the kind of form that shows up on an official document at the urząd rather than in daily speech. Both forms trace back to the same meaning: high, exalted, dostojna.
How many people are named Brigitta
1 in 626218 women in Poland is named Brigitta. 36 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6558 among female names.
Brigitta as a middle name
Brigitta is a first name for 36 women in Poland and a middle name for another 23, a 61/39 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1483rd, between Bridget (23) and Ditta (23).
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#1481 Bogumila23
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#1482 Bridget23
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#1483 Brigitta23
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#1484 Ditta23
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#1485 Edeltraud23