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The rigg Surname

rigg Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Ridge 1.
  2. German: from a short form of any of several Germanic personal names based on ric ‘power(ful)’.
  3. Possibly a variant of the Swiss family name Rüegg (see Ruegg).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rigg Families in the US in 1920
Number of rigg families
 64-125
 22-63		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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