Bridger
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #701 for boys in 2025, 383 births
Given to boys 99.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 383 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,873since 1974
Bridger over time
Rank among boys' names. Bridger has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #701 | 383 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #790 | 319 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #750 | 348 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #739 | 348 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #723 | 357 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #931 | 239 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #908 | 242 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #927 | 229 |
| 2017 | — | #944 | 221 | |
| 2016 | — | #855 | 263 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #1,023 | 198 |
| 2014 | — | #986 | 211 | |
| 2013 | — | #904 | 230 | |
| 2012 | — | #936 | 217 | |
| 2011 | — | #957 | 207 | |
| 2010 | — | #920 | 219 | |
| 2009 | — | #867 | 242 | |
| 2008 | — | #968 | 206 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,038 | 181 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,070 | 167 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,011 | 168 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,034 | 158 | |
| 2003 | — | #983 | 161 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,026 | 149 | |
| 2001 | — | #997 | 153 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,015 | 144 | |
| 1999 | — | #993 | 142 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,159 | 108 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,096 | 115 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,206 | 93 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,369 | 74 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,581 | 58 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,162 | 36 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,955 | 41 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,989 | 21 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,214 | 32 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,205 | 18 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,350 | 15 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,641 | 20 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,684 | 19 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,401 | 13 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,956 | 15 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,787 | 16 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,898 | 15 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,569 | 11 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,929 | 14 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,606 | 10 | |
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| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bridger! It came in at #5,227, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Bridger is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wyoming#40 · 1 in 118
- Montana#45 · 1 in 173
- Idaho#124 · 1 in 439
- Utah#135 · 1 in 484
- North Dakota#171 · 1 in 506
Best ever in a state: #10 in Wyoming, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | #40 | 13 | 1 in 118 |
| Montana | #45 | 21 | 1 in 173 |
| Idaho | #124 | 18 | 1 in 439 |
| Utah | #135 | 42 | 1 in 484 |
| North Dakota | #171 | 8 | 1 in 506 |
| South Dakota | #244 | 5 | 1 in 787 |
| Colorado | #425 | 13 | 1 in 2,035 |
| Oregon | #466 | 8 | 1 in 2,172 |
| Washington | #537 | 12 | 1 in 2,963 |
| Arizona | #713 | 7 | 1 in 4,947 |
| Missouri | #840 | 5 | 1 in 6,121 |
| Tennessee | #932 | 5 | 1 in 7,254 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,211 | 5 | 1 in 11,642 |
| Texas | #1,351 | 12 | 1 in 14,681 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bridger
- 89 spots since 2024 (#790 → #701)
- 230 spots since 2020 (#931 → #701)
- 322 spots since 2015 (#1,023 → #701)
- Biggest jump: 208 spots in 2021 (#931 → #723)
- Biggest drop: 89 spots in 2017 (#855 → #944)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2025 at #701 (383 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2016–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,460 boys born in 2025 were named Bridger (0.02%)
- 32.5% of all boys named Bridger (2,237) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 40 | #2,929 (1978) | #3,833 |
| 1980s | 153 | #2,641 (1987) | #3,124 |
| 1990s | 720 | #993 (1999) | #1,672 |
| 2000s | 1,729 | #867 (2009) | #1,001 |
| 2010s | 2,237 | #855 (2016) | #936 |
| 2020s | 1,994 | #701 (2025) | #772 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bridger in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 8,375 of them was named Bridger, which outranked 93.4% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).