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Type Surname (from location)
Usage English

Meaning & History

Habitational name from any of the various places in England named with northern Middle English bigging "building" (from Old Norse). This word came to denote especially an outbuilding, and is still used in and around Northumberland and Cumbria.
Added 3/11/2016 by anonymous