Entry № 1494 · Swedish origin

Birgitta Birgitta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Swedish
Meaning
"The exalted one"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the exalted one".

Birgitta is a name of Swedish origin, meaning the exalted one.

The exalted one — a Swedish name.

The name in its native script.

Birgitta
Transliteration
Birgitta
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Birgitta stands.

Birgitta 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.

Birgittas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Birgitta.

The number behind Birgitta.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Birgitta reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.