Brigitte
Just 152 Polish women carry the French and German spelling Brigitte, and no girl has been given it in years. Germanic at root, it means "exalted one".
Brigitte Pronunciation
Brigitte is pronounced bree-GEET-te (/briˈgittɛ/).
What Brigitte means
Where Brigitte comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Brigitte comes from a Germanic root that meant the exalted one, someone raised high. The short meaning keeps two ideas together, elevation and strength. In Polish that reads as wysoka, dostojna.
The spelling belongs to France and Germany. Brigitte Bardot, the French actress born in 1934, carried it into film and made it known worldwide. Saint Birgitta of Sweden, canonized in 1391, gave the name its devotional history, and her feast on 23 July is still marked as a name-day.
Its sense of strength is not ornament.
Say the name on an official form at the urząd, and you write the old word for exalted one. The Germanic origin points to height and rank. The strength in wysoka, dostojna comes from that.
How many people are named Brigitte
1 in 148315 women in Poland is named Brigitte. 152 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2632 among female names.
Brigitte as a middle name
Brigitte is a first name for 152 women in Poland and a middle name for another 110, a 58/42 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 632nd, between Jeanne (111) and Florence (110).
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#630 Eleni111
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#631 Jeanne111
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#632 Brigitte110
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#633 Florence110
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#634 Ismena110