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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BIGGAR

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(origin: Local) A town in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Buygar, in Danish, signifies a builder.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

Scottish: habitational name from a place in east Lanarkshire, probably named with Old Norse bygg ‘barley’ + geiri ‘triangular plot of land’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)