Last name: BRIGGS
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Last name frequency
BRIGGS : This last name is indexed 330,102 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BRIGGS : English: variant of Brigg with post-medieval excrescent -s from Middle English brig(g) (Old Norse bryggja) the northern and Scottish word for bridge for someone who lived by a bridge or who came from any of the places called from the word.
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- Taunton, Bristol (2,424)
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