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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of fifteen farmsteads so named, from Old Norse hryggr ‘backbone’, ‘spine’, in allusion to a mountain ridge.
  • Perhaps an altered spelling of the English family name Rigg, a variant of Ridge 1.

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