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The BRYDGES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 373 52289 0 1
United States (1880 census) 33 60312 0 1
Change since 1880 +340 +8023 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 35 33556 0 2
United Kingdom 161 18646 0 4
Top States for BRYDGES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 51 30718 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 44 27602 0.000 4
Michigan 43 25290 0.000 4
Washington 27 22465 0.000 5
California 26 68588 0.000 1
Top States for BRYDGES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 7 18396 0.001 5
Washington 27 22465 0.000 5
Michigan 43 25290 0.000 4
Delaware 3 29371 0.000 4
Pennsylvania 44 27602 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of BRYDGES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BRYDGES 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 BRYDGES 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 BRYDGES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 366 98.12
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of BRYDGES in historical publications

BRYDGES. Originally written Brnges, and assumed to be of I'lemish origin, from the famous city of that name.

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 BRYDGES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRYDGES.

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 BRYDGES

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