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The BRIDGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,570 16754 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 708 7291 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +862 -9463 0 -8
Other Countries
Australia 503 3197 0.003 31
United Kingdom 2,603 2373 0.006 57
Top States for BRIDGER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 155 10849 0.001 7
North Carolina 126 5953 0.002 16
New York 111 16423 0.001 6
Florida 103 16208 0.001 6
Illinois 76 16945 0.001 6
Top States for BRIDGER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 18 3596 0.004 36
Nebraska 52 4819 0.003 30
Arkansas 73 4103 0.003 27
Montana 18 7636 0.002 20
North Carolina 126 5953 0.002 16

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BRIDGER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BRIDGER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BRIDGER in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BRIDGER by picking someone at random in Wyoming than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BRIDGER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BRIDGER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BRIDGER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BRIDGER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 36 2.29
White (Hispanic) 21 1.34
Asian/Pacific 13 0.83
Mixed Race 11 0.7
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.45
White (Caucasian) 1,482 94.39

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BRIDGER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BRIDGER in historical publications

BRIDGER. See Bridge, and the termination ER.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BRIDGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRIDGER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BRIDGER

The following words are slight variants of BRIDGER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.