Brigida

Meaning of Brigida

Brigida, a Latinized variant of the Old Irish Brigit—meaning “exalted one”—draws on both the Celtic goddess of poetry and healing and the enduring legacy of Saint Brigid of Kildare. It has been integrated into Spanish and Italian usage as bree-HEE-dah and bree-JEE-dah, respectively, demonstrating its cross-cultural phonetic precision. In the United States, Brigida reached its highest recorded rank of 409 in 1911 with seven registrations and thereafter settled into a pattern of modest but steady use, most recently averaging fewer than ten newborns per year and ranking in the 800s to 900s. This sustained rarity not only lends the name a measure of historical gravitas but also makes it unlikely that a Brigida will ever share her classroom roster.