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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.

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