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Origin Of The Surname Biggs
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Meaning Of The Surname Biggs
Descendant of Bigge
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Interesting
Facts About
Biggs
Biggs is thought to be a patronymic surname, this is suggested by the suffixed ‘s’. Patronymic surname were given to pass down the name of the father of a household to his kin. This surname is thought to come from the Old English ‘bigga’ which was used as a nickname for a large or fat person in medieval times. Nicknames were an easy way to distinguish people and so many nicknames stuck as hereditary surnames. Biggs would have been given as a surname to the descendants of a man nicknamed ‘bigge’. |
Biggs Statistics
Biggs is the number 1296 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 7,972 share the surname Biggs in the UK.
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