Bridger
Bridger was given to 383 boys in 2025, #701 among boys’ names; 6,945 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,850 Americans named Bridger and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 5 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bridger by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bridger mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bridger is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
From bridge + -er.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bridger?
#701 among boys’ names, 2025
Bridger rose from #1,024 in 2015 to #701 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.10 to 0.22 per 1,000.
388 babies in 2025, the peak
Bridger peaked in 2025, when 388 babies were given it (383 boys, #701 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 319 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 383 | #701 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 319 | #790 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 348 | #751 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 348 | #739 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 357 | #723 | 0.20 |
| 2020 | 239 | #931 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 242 | #908 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 229 | #927 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 221 | #944 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 263 | #856 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 198 | #1,024 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 211 | #986 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 230 | #905 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 217 | #937 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 207 | #958 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 219 | #920 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 242 | #869 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 206 | #969 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 181 | #1,038 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 167 | #1,072 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 168 | #1,010 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 158 | #1,034 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 161 | #984 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 149 | #1,025 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 153 | #997 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 144 | #1,013 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 142 | #991 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 108 | #1,158 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 115 | #1,096 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,205 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,365 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 58 | #1,577 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 36 | #2,162 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 41 | #1,952 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 21 | #2,998 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,216 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,212 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,369 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,640 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,693 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,425 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 15 | #2,976 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,799 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,509 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,912 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,881 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,590 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,949 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,634 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,297 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bridger a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,945 Americans recorded as Bridger, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 383 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bridger: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bridger, and how old are they?
6,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,945 Americans ever recorded as Bridger. The median Bridger alive today is 13 years old; half are between 5 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 4,727 people named Bridger (74 women and girls, 4,653 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 46 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 477 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,630 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Bridger born?
The states with the most babies named Bridger are Utah, Washington and Colorado, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah and Washington and Colorado are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 46 | #114 | 17.6× |
| Washington | 19 | #384 | 1.5× |
| Colorado | 17 | #368 | 2.7× |
| Missouri | 17 | #373 | 0.6× |
| Idaho | 16 | #169 | 11.8× |
| Minnesota | 16 | #359 | 0.7× |
| California | 15 | #1,255 | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 15 | #499 | 0.4× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,355 | 0.3× |
| Iowa | 14 | #279 | 0.7× |
Where Bridger is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bridger is most over-represented in Montana: since 1974 it was given 21.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bridger with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bridger
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bridger and names like it
- Compare Bridger and JahazielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBridger peaked in 2025.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bridger since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Bridger: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Bridger.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bridger alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.