Brigitte is a first name for girls.
Brigitte is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 2,029 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 2,028 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Brigitte.
You may not know anyone named Brigitte, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 32 states are home to women and girls named Brigitte. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Brigitte living in one state or another. If your name is Brigitte and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In California, which has the most people named Brigitte relative to the population, you still have to ask 9,409 women and girls their names before you hear Brigitte as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With eight letters, the name Brigitte is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.
If your name is Brigitte and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Brigitte, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Rocket
Igloo
Goat
Igloo
Tiger
Tiger
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Brigitte
Brigitte
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
R
I
G
I
T
T
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
R
I
G
I
T
T
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Brigitte sounds like this:
