Biggar

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English

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Etymology

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Probably from Old Norse bygg (barley) + geiri (gore, triangular plot of land).

Proper noun

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Biggar (countable and uncountable, plural Biggars)

  1. A village in Barrow-in-Furness district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD186662).
  2. A town and civil parish of South Lanarkshire council area, Lanarkshire, Scotland (OS grid ref NT045375).
  3. A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  4. The Rural Municipality of Biggar No. 347, a rural municipality in western Saskatchewan, Canada.
  5. A habitational surname from Old Norse.

Statistics

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  • 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

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