Biggarとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Probably from Old Norse bygg (“barley”) + geiri (“gore, triangular plot of land”), or from 古期英語 beow + 古期英語 gāra, same meaning.

固有名詞

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.

統計情報

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Biggar is the 30735 most common surname in the United States, belonging to 758 individuals. Biggar is most common among White (95.91%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Biggar”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 158.