Higgins

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • from County Sligo.

Origin

  • An anglicised version of the Irish Ó h-Úigín ("descendant of a person named Viking").
  • A Middle English patronymic surname derived from a diminutive of Hick ( Richard).

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