Last Name RIDGE

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Meaning	Local: At the ridge, from residence on the rig or back of a hill. In North Lancashire and Cumberland Rigg was a very well known surname, almost as common as Fell.

Origin	English, Native American, Irish

Rank	4,672 (2000 US census)	6,295 (1990 US census)

Count	6,942 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

88.09%, or 6115 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
6.78%, or 471 total occurrences, as black,
0.37%, or 26 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.97%, or 67 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.96%, or 136 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.83%, or 127 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

English surnames

English surnames can be divided into five classes: Baptisimal or Personal (first) names, local, official, and occupative surnames. Nicknames represent the last class. Practically there are only four classes, for it is often hard ti distinguish between occupation and offic...