Ridge

Ridge is the 5,089th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,676 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 44,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,676
Rank: 5,089th
How common: 1 in 44,800
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

From ridge. Originating from Middle English.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.1%
Black, not Hispanic 7.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Ridge

Tom Ridge (born 1945)43rd Governor of Pennsylvania, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security
Lola Ridge (1873–1941)Irish-American poet

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

Surnames like Ridge

Also a first name

Ridge has been given to 7,911 American babies as a first name since 1948, peaking in 2023. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.