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Bridges
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Origin Of The Surname Bridges
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Meaning Of The Surname Bridges
Person From the Bridge
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Interesting
Facts About
Bridges
Bridges is a surname that was originally of locational or topographical use. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. Bridges would have been given as a surname for a person from any of the places so-called across Britain. Topographical surnames described a landmark where the bearer lived, and in this case a person with this name could have lived by a bridge. The suffixed ‘s’ gives the meaning ‘Person From the Bridge’ to the name. Kevin Bridges to Scottish comedian is a famous bearer of this surname. |
Bridges Statistics
Bridges is the number 889 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 11,117 share the surname Bridges in the UK.
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