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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English digge ‘duck’, probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept, caught, or sold ducks or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble a duck in some way.
  • English : patronymic from Digg, a voiced variant of the personal name Dick.

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