as a Last Name
- 7,555
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Ridge
Meaning & Origins
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a ridge, Middle English rigge, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, as for example Ridge in Hertfordshire. The surname is also fairly common in Ireland, in County Galway, having been taken to Connacht in the early 17th century. The name is sometimes Gaelicized as Mac Iomaire; iomaire is modern Irish for ‘ridge’.
| 4,678th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,555
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Indiana
- has the most people named Ridge per capita
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