Entry № 1633 · Irish origin

Bridgette Bridgette — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ brih-JET /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Exalted one / strength (variant of Bridget; Bridgette Wilson)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "exalted one / strength (variant of bridget; bridgette wilson)".

Bridgette is a French-influenced spelling of Bridget — from the Irish Brighid ("exalted one, strength"), the name of both the Celtic goddess of poetry and the most-revered Irish saint after Patrick.

and American pop culture.

Exalted one / strength.

The name in its native script.

Bridgette
Transliteration
Bridgette
Pronunciation
/ brɪˈdʒɛt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bridgette stands.

Bridgette does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Bridgettes before her.

Real people
Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
American actress.
born 1973
Bridgette Andersen
American child actress.
1975 – 1997
Bridgette Romanek
American interior designer.
born 1973
In fiction
Sonya Blade
Mortal Kombat (1995 film).
1995

Names connected to Bridgette.

The number behind Bridgette.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bridgette reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.