Bridie
A bridie or Forfar bridie is a Scottish meat pasty that originates from Forfar, Scotland.
- Irish
Meaning & Origin of Bridie
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
A bridie or Forfar bridie is a Scottish meat pasty that originates from Forfar, Scotland.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Irish
The Story of Bridie
Bridie first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1909, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1918: 12 births, good for #2,674 nationwide. Bridie last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 374 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1900s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Bridie
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About the name Bridie
Bridie is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1909 and has accumulated 374 births in the dataset. Bridie's peak popularity came in 1918 when it ranked #2,674. Use the chart and map above to compare Bridie's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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