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Higgins

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

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.