Family name origins & meanings
- English (chiefly Somerset and Dorset) : variant of Bridge, Old English brycg, with metathesis of u and r, as exemplified in several place names of this origin in various parts of southern England.
- German (Bürge) : from Middle High German bürge ‘bailsman’, ‘guarantor’.
- In some cases maybe an altered spelling of Swiss Bürgi (see Burgi).