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legg Name Meaning and History

English (chiefly West Country): metonymic nickname for someone with some malformation or peculiarity of the leg, or just with particularly long legs, from Middle English legg (Old Norse leggr).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the legg family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of legg Families in the US in 1920
Number of legg families
 107-211
 36-106		 1-35
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