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Sarah has given you most of the information. I'd just add that at least until very recently it was the custom in most Ashkenazic Jewish families for the Hebrew name to be the name of a deceased relative, and for the "American" first name to start with the same letter as the Hebrew name would. So Benjamin, Baruch, Barak, Barzillai, Benaiah, Boaz, or some other Hebrew name starting with "B" would be most likely for a Jewish man named Bridge.

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Also, as Sarah pointed out, Carson would be unusual as a surname for a Jewish man. But there are many Jewish families that have "Americanized" their surname to something that was originally very non-Jewish. I even had a friend whose last name was Evans who was Jewish; his grandfather had changed it from something like Eivienski to get away from anti-Semitism.