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Biggs Name Meaning
English: nickname for a large or stout person, Middle English
bigge + unexplained -s.English: records of names
such as William de Bigges (Cambridgeshire 1327) and
Laurentia atte Bigge (Somerset 1327) suggest that it must also
have a topographic or habitational origin, but the etymology is
obscure.Scottish and northern Irish: variant of Beggs.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Biggs Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Biggs families
 127 - 251  43 - 126 |
 1 - 42  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Biggs families
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705 - 1,407 236 - 704 |
1 - 235 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Biggs families
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11 - 20 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Biggs Family Origin
Biggs Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Biggs
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Biggs Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Biggs census records
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