English (mainly Durham and Northumbria): from Middle English
pigge ‘young hog’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a
swineherd or nickname for someone supposedly resembling a hog.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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