Bridges Family History
Bridges Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Bridges Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bridges families
 288 - 574  97 - 287 |
 1 - 96  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bridges families
|
488 - 974 163 - 487 |
1 - 162 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bridges families
|
36 - 69 13 - 35 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bridges Family Origin
Bridges Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Bridges
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Bridges Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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