Biggar
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English
Etymology
Probably from Old Norse bygg (“barley”) + geiri (“gore, triangular plot of land”).
Proper noun
Biggar (countable and uncountable, plural Biggars)
- A village in Barrow-in-Furness district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD186662).
- A town and civil parish of South Lanarkshire council area, Lanarkshire, Scotland (OS grid ref NT045375).
- A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- The Rural Municipality of Biggar No. 347, a rural municipality in western Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A habitational surname from Old Norse.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Biggar is the 30735th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 758 individuals. Biggar is most common among White (95.91%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Biggar”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 158.