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BRIDGES

Surname statistics for Bridges

There are approximately 10,888 people named Bridges in the UK. That makes it the 967th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 172 are named Bridges.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)10888967N/A172
United Kingdom (1881 census)47649300.016159
Change since 1881+6124-37+0.001+13
Other Countries
United States52260579N/A194
Australia13021263N/A80

Politics

People with the surname Bridges are more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Bridges are:

  1. Conservative (6)
  2. Labour (2)
  3. Liberal Democrat (1)
  4. Herefordshire Independents (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Bridges
David Bridges
Robert Bridges
Paul Bridges
Michael Bridges
Peter Bridges
Mark Bridges
James Bridges
Stephen Bridges
Ian Bridges
Christopher Bridges
Alan Bridges
Anthony Bridges
Richard Bridges
Andrew Bridges
Kevin Bridges
Barry Bridges
Martin Bridges
Raymond Bridges
Colin Bridges

Top female forenames

Susan Bridges
Julie Bridges
Margaret Bridges
Karen Bridges
Janet Bridges
Deborah Bridges
Rebecca Bridges
Elizabeth Bridges
Claire Bridges
Nicola Bridges
Jennifer Bridges
Linda Bridges
Anne Bridges
Sally Bridges
Helen Bridges
Julia Bridges
Christine Bridges
Mary Bridges
Catherine Bridges
Ann Bridges

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.