Bridgewater

At the 2020 census, 3,667 Americans bore the surname Bridgewater — 8,603rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 81,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,667
Rank: 8,603rd
How common: 1 in 81,500
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Variant of Bridgwater.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bridgewater described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 55.0%
Black, not Hispanic 35.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater (born 1950)American singer
Brad Bridgewater (born 1973)American swimmer
George Bridgewater (born 1983)New Zealand rower
Teddy Bridgewater (born 1992)American football player

People named Bridgewater with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bridgewater

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.