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Updated August 16, 2024

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : From the ridge

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Ridge

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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’.

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