Bridges (family name)

Bridges is an English family name.

Origin and meaning

Bridges is usually a dwelling place names represent points so that an ancestor of namesakes near a bridge , english bridge , was resident, while the s-suffix marked no plural here, but a comparable in many, especially in one-syllable names ( Brooks , Holmes ) is a regularly occurring addition, possibly also a genitive s .

In other cases, however , Bridges refers to the Flemish city of Bruges , which was previously called Bridges in English , as the name of origin .

Name bearer

• Alan Bridges (1927–2013), English director, actor and producer
• Alice Bridges (1916–2011), American swimmer
• Alicia Bridges (* 1953), American singer and lyricist
• Althea Bridges (* 1936), Austrian-Australian opera singer
• Angelica Bridges (* 1970), American actress
• Barry Bridges (* 1941), English football player and coach
• Beau Bridges (born 1941), American actor
• Ben Bridges (born 1937), English football player
• Bernard Bridges (born 1959), English football player
• Bill Bridges (1939-2015), American basketball player
• Bles Bridges (1946-2000), South African pop singer
• Brooke Marie Bridges (born 1991), American actress
• Calvin Bridges (1889–1938), American geneticist
• Chloe Bridges (* 1991), American actress, singer and pianist
• Dacia Bridges (1973-2019), American rock 'n' roll and dance music singer
• David Bridges (* 1982), English football player
• Dewi Bridges († 2015), British bishop
• Dorothy Bridges (1915–2009), American poet and actress
• Douglas Bridges (* 1945), British-New Zealand mathematician
• Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges (1892–1969), British politician and civil servant
• George Washington Bridges (1825–1873), American politician
• Harold Bridges (1915–1989), English football player
• Henry Bridges (1908--1986), American jazz musician
• Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann (1855–1916), Munich's first general practitioner and women's rights activist
• James Bridges (1936–1993), American director and screenwriter
• Jeff Bridges (born 1949), American actor
• Jim Bridges (* 1951), American bobsledder
• John Bridges (archer) (1852-1925), British archer
• John Bridges (1936–1998), British racing car driver
• Jordan Bridges (* 1973), American film and television actor
• Krista Bridges (* 1968), Canadian actress
• Leon Bridges (* 1989), American retro soul singer
• Lloyd Bridges (1913–1998), American actor
• Lucas Bridges (1874–1949), Argentine writer
• Mark Bridges , American costume designer
• Michael Bridges (* 1978), English football player
• Mikal Bridges (* 1996), American basketball player
• Miles Bridges (* 1998), American basketball player
• Otis L. Bridges (1798–1870), American lawyer and politician
• Peter Bridges († 2015), British clergyman and archdeacon
• Robert Bridges (1844–1930), English poet
• Rocky Bridges († 2015), American baseball player
• Roy D. Bridges (* 1943), American astronaut
• Ruby Bridges (* 1954), American civil rights activist
• Samuel Augustus Bridges (1802-1884), American politician
• Simon Bridges (* 1976), New Zealand politician with the New Zealand National Party
• Steve Bridges (1963–2012), American comedian, impersonator, parodist and actor
• Styles Bridges (1898–1961), American politician
• Thomas Bridges (1842–1898), Anglican missionary
• Thomas Bridges, 2nd Baron Bridges (1927–2017), British diplomat
• Todd Bridges (born 1965), American actor
• Tom Bridges (1871–1939), British Lieutenant General and Governor of South Australia
• WG Bridges († 1954/1955), American pharmacist and politician
• William Bridges Adams (1797–1872), English publicist, railway designer and entrepreneur
• William Throsby Bridges (1861–1915), Australian artillery officer and division commander in World War I.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Charles Wareing Bardsley: A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surname . Henry Frowde, London 1901, pp. 137-138, sv Bridge, Bridges .
2. ^ PH Reaney and RM Wilson: A Dictionary of English Last Names . 3rd revised edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 1997. p. 64, sv Bridgey, Brydges .