Bridger

Where Bridger comes from

From bridge + -er.
— Wiktionary's entry for Bridger
Along the way
  1. 1974
    First appearance
    #5,227 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #701
    383 babies named Bridger — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely known Bridger turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.