Bridger
Where Bridger comes from
From bridge + -er.
Along the way
- 1974First appearance#5,227 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 2025Peak, #701383 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.