Bigger Surname
Approximately 4,164 people bear this surname
Bigger Surname Definition:
(English, Scottish) One who buys, a purchaser; one who came from Biggar (barley field), in Lanarkshire.
Read More About This SurnameBigger Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2,852 | 1:127,089 | 13,468 |
| Switzerland | 519 | 1:15,824 | 2,594 |
| Iran | 180 | 1:426,570 | 26,777 |
| Canada | 168 | 1:219,319 | 21,150 |
| England | 123 | 1:452,992 | 29,924 |
| Northern Ireland | 122 | 1:15,123 | 2,057 |
| Germany | 44 | 1:1,829,670 | 103,431 |
| Australia | 42 | 1:642,755 | 44,739 |
| Liechtenstein | 20 | 1:1,919 | 202 |
| Nigeria | 13 | 1:13,626,366 | 237,812 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| South Africa | 9 | 1:6,019,745 | 157,966 |
| New Zealand | 7 | 1:646,903 | 40,014 |
| Israel | 5 | 1:1,711,527 | 84,568 |
| Scotland | 4 | 1:1,338,454 | 35,497 |
| Afghanistan | 4 | 1:8,038,296 | 30,874 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Gibraltar | 1 | 1:33,954 | 1,660 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 124 | 1:35,725 | 3,397 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 59 | 1:413,142 | 24,536 |
| Scotland | 32 | 1:116,976 | 5,458 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:51,882 | 3,898 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,012 | 1:49,623 | 5,643 |
Bigger (143) may also be a first name.
Bigger Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(English, Scottish) One who buys, a purchaser; one who came from Biggar (barley field), in Lanarkshire.
Bigger: a builder.
User-submitted Reference
(Scottish) This surname comes from the name of a Parish in Lanarkshire.
- dinn315Bigger Demographics
Average Male Bigger Height
178.06 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Bigger Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bigger Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bigger is held by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bigger? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 111,504th most frequently held last name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,750,131 people. The surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 73 percent of Bigger reside; 72 percent reside in North America and 72 percent reside in Anglo-North America. Bigger is also the 772,378th most frequently held given name internationally, held by 143 people.
The surname Bigger is most frequently occurring in The United States, where it is borne by 2,852 people, or 1 in 127,089. In The United States Bigger is most frequent in: Michigan, where 12 percent reside, Illinois, where 8 percent reside and California, where 6 percent reside. Not including The United States this last name occurs in 44 countries. It is also found in Switzerland, where 12 percent reside and Iran, where 4 percent reside.
Bigger Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Bigger has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Bigger last name increased 282 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it increased 208 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it decreased 87 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it decreased 99 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Bigger Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the last name is predominantly Presbyterian (44%) in Ireland.
In The United States those holding the Bigger surname are 6.62% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 53.39% being registered with the political party.
The amount Bigger earn in different countries varies marginally. In United States they earn 1.9% more than the national average, earning $43,967 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.12% less than the national average, earning $48,629 CAD per year.
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Bigger Reference & Research
Biggs DNA Website - A web page dedicated to the genetic research of those who bear the surname and its variants.
Biggs FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
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- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Bigger
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