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bridges Name Meaning and History

English: variant of Bridge. The -s generally represents the genitive case, but may occasionally be a plural. In some cases this name denoted someone from the Flemish city of Bruges (Brugge), meaning ‘bridges’, which had extensive trading links with England in the Middle Ages.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bridges Families in the US in 1920
Number of bridges families
 288-574
 97-287		 1-96
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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