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Help[Surname] Riggans
Does anyone know anything about Riggans? It was the surname of the first recorded paternal relative I have in the 1700's in western North Carolina (though it is not my surname).
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Possibly an alternative form of ...
Riggins
English, Scottish, and Irish: unexplained. Possibly a variant of Higgins (see below) through misdivision of a name such as Peter Higgins.
Higgins
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn ‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking’, ‘sea-rover’ (from Old Norse víkingr).
Irish: variant of Hagan (see below).
English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Higgin, a pet form of Hick (see below).
Hagan
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÁgáin ‘descendant of Ógán’, a personal name from a diminutive of óg ‘young’.
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAodhagáin ‘descendant of Aodhagán’, a personal name formed from a double diminutive of Aodh meaning ‘fire’.
Hick
English: from the medieval personal name Hicke, a pet form of Richard. The substitution of H- as the initial resulted from the inability of the English to cope with the velar Norman R-.
Dutch: from a pet form of a Germanic personal name, such as Icco or Hikke (a Frisian derivative of a compound name with the first element hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’).
East German: from a derivative of a Slavic pet form of Heinrich.
South German: from Hiko, a pet form of any of the Germanic personal names formed with hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’ as the first element.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University
Riggins
English, Scottish, and Irish: unexplained. Possibly a variant of Higgins (see below) through misdivision of a name such as Peter Higgins.
Higgins
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn ‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking’, ‘sea-rover’ (from Old Norse víkingr).
Irish: variant of Hagan (see below).
English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Higgin, a pet form of Hick (see below).
Hagan
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÁgáin ‘descendant of Ógán’, a personal name from a diminutive of óg ‘young’.
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAodhagáin ‘descendant of Aodhagán’, a personal name formed from a double diminutive of Aodh meaning ‘fire’.
Hick
English: from the medieval personal name Hicke, a pet form of Richard. The substitution of H- as the initial resulted from the inability of the English to cope with the velar Norman R-.
Dutch: from a pet form of a Germanic personal name, such as Icco or Hikke (a Frisian derivative of a compound name with the first element hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’).
East German: from a derivative of a Slavic pet form of Heinrich.
South German: from Hiko, a pet form of any of the Germanic personal names formed with hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’ as the first element.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University
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