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ridge Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a ridge, Middle English rigge, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, as for example Ridge in Hertfordshire. The surname is also fairly common in Ireland, in County Galway, having been taken to Connacht in the early 17th century. The name is sometimes Gaelicized as Mac Iomaire; iomaire is modern Irish for ‘ridge’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The ridge name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the ridge family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of ridge Families in the US in 1920
Number of ridge families
 51-99
 18-50		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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