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higgins Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn ‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking’, ‘sea-rover’ (from Old Norse víkingr).
  2. Irish: variant of Hagan.
  3. English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Higgin, a pet form of Hick.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The higgins name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the higgins family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of higgins Families in the US in 1920
Number of higgins families
 878-1753
 293-877		 1-292
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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