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The BIGGS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 22,634 1448 0.008 84
United States (1880 census) 5,634 1083 0.011 113
Change since 1880 +17000 -365 -0.003 -29
Other Countries
Australia 1,485 1109 0.009 91
United Kingdom 7,376 835 0.016 161
Top States for BIGGS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,775 1927 0.005 52
Texas 1,659 1578 0.008 80
Tennessee 1,372 690 0.024 241
Florida 1,261 1725 0.008 79
North Carolina 1,209 1053 0.015 150
Top States for BIGGS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 1,372 690 0.024 241
Oklahoma 654 741 0.019 190
Delaware 146 994 0.019 186
Indiana 1,071 691 0.018 176
Arkansas 445 843 0.017 166

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BIGGS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BIGGS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BIGGS in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BIGGS by picking someone at random in Tennessee than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BIGGS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BIGGS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BIGGS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BIGGS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 378 1.67
Mixed Race 330 1.46
Native American/Alaskan 147 0.65
Asian/Pacific 66 0.29
White (Caucasian) 18,716 82.69
Black/African American 2,994 13.23

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BIGGS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BIGGS in historical publications

BIGG. BIGGE. BIGGS. A pra;-Doraesd. personal name, Biga. The officer who provided carriages for the king was called a Biga — 2)robalily with some reference to the Lat. biffa, a two-horse chariot. Ellis, Introd. Domesd. i. 91.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BIGGS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BIGGS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BIGGS

The following words are slight variants of BIGGS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.