Lockridge
A likely locational surname meaning someone who lived by a locked or enclosed ridge, or near a ridge associated with a place-name element like “lock” or “loch.”
The #8,714 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 82,004 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Lockridge is best understood as an English locational surname. It appears to combine "lock," which in place-names can refer to a lock, enclosure, or possibly a water feature in some regional forms, with "ridge," meaning a long raised strip of land. As with many English surnames of this type, it likely began as a name for someone who lived near a distinctive landscape feature or came from a small place with that name or a similar one.
History
The surname is most likely of English origin, though it may also have arisen independently in more than one place or family. Like many locational surnames, it would originally have identified a person by where they lived or came from, and later became hereditary. The name is relatively uncommon in the United States and is found there in small numbers.
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Fun fact
Because it is uncommon, Lockridge is the kind of surname that often preserves a very specific place-based family story, even when the original place is hard to pinpoint today.