Higgins Family History
Higgins Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn
‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking’, ‘sea-rover’
(from Old Norse víkingr).Irish: variant of
Hagan.English: patronymic from the medieval
personal name Higgin, a pet form of Hick.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Higgins Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Higgins families
 878 - 1,753  293 - 877 |
 1 - 292  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Higgins families
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1,145 - 2,288 382 - 1,144 |
1 - 381 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Higgins families
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500 - 997 167 - 499 |
1 - 166 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Higgins Family Origin
Higgins Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Higgins
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Higgins Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Higgins Civil War Service Records
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