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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Bickenhill in Warwickshire or Bickenhall in Somerset. Both are named with the Old English personal name Bicca + Old English hyll ‘hill’, but in the Somerset name the final element alternates with Old English h(e)all ‘hall’.
  • English : variant of Bignell.

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