The liggett Surname
liggett Name Meaning and History
English (now found mainly in northern Ireland): topographic name
from Middle English lidyate ‘gate in a fence between plowed
land and meadow’ (Old English hlid-geat ‘swing-gate’), or a
habitational name from one of the places named with this word, as for
example Lidgate in Suffolk or Lydiate in Lancashire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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