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    The surname Biggar

    A Norse place surname, carried by 758 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B260

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Biggar is more common than 81.1% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    Probably from Old Norse bygg (“barley”) + geiri (“gore, triangular plot of land”), or from Old English beow + Old English gāra, same meaning.

    Biggar is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 758 people named Biggar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 407,316 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 744.

    #30,735
    rank among US surnames
    758
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.9%
    change since 2000 (was #29,815)

    Who is named Biggar

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    96% of people named Biggar identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Biggar

    Biggar has the Soundex code B260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B260.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Biggar come from?
    Probably from Old Norse bygg (“barley”) + geiri (“gore, triangular plot of land”), or from Old English beow + Old English gāra, same meaning.
    How common is the surname Biggar?
    758 people in the United States had the surname Biggar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 407,316 Americans. It ranked 30,735th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Biggar?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Biggar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Biggar?
    Biggar is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Biggar getting more or less common?
    More common. 744 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 758 in 2010, up 1.9%.