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.