Birgit
Just 53 women in Poland carry Birgit, and no newborn girl has taken it this century. It's Germanic, meaning "exalted one", and it stays foreign here: most Poles have never met one.
Birgit Pronunciation
Birgit is pronounced BEER-geet (/ˈbirgit/).
What Birgit means
Where Birgit comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Birgit comes from Germanic roots and reaches Polish ears through Scandinavia and Germany. The short meaning is "exalted one," in Polish "wywyższona, wzniosła." The name points upward, toward height and honor.
The most documented bearer is Birgitta of Sweden, the fourteenth-century mystic who founded the Bridgettine order and was canonized in 1391. In 1999 the Vatican named her a patron saint of Europe. Her name spread across the Scandinavian and German lands where Birgit settled as the everyday form.
Birgit has no diminutives or cross-gender variants in the given record. It stands on its own. On a Polish class register the name looks foreign, and a teacher may pause over it before reading it out.
The meaning of "exalted" was never a promise about the child. It is what the syllables carry from old Germanic speech. Birgit means the exalted one.
How many people are named Birgit
1 in 425355 women in Poland is named Birgit. 53 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5128 among female names.
Birgit as a middle name
Birgit is a first name for 53 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, an 87/13 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2716th, between Beverly (8) and Brunhilde (8).
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#2714 Bernadyta8
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#2715 Beverly8
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#2716 Birgit8
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#2717 Brunhilde8
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#2718 Cara8