as a Last Name
- 87,149
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Higgins
Meaning & Origins
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn ‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking’, ‘searover’ (from Old Norse víkingr).
| 358th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Higginbotham, Huggins, Higgs, Hudgins, Hudgens, Higginson, Higginbottom, Hodgins, Higgerson, Higgenbotham
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 87,149
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Higgins per capita
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