Rigg Genealogy and Rigg Family History Information

Rigg surname: Rigges and Riggs are variants of the Old Norse Ridge from the word hyrggr. Formation and development as a surname is from the Middle English word rigge and the Old English word hrycg. The meaning is "someone who lived on or by a ridge." Norwegian: habitational name from any of fifteen farmsteads so named, from Old Norse hryggr meaning‘backbone’or ‘spine’, in allusion to a mountain ridge.

Variations: Riggs, Rigge, Rigges, Ridge

Norwegian variant- Rygg

Sources:

• http://www.riggs.org.uk/Origins/index.htm#Meaning
• http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/riggs
• http://genealogy.familyeducation.com/surname-origin/rygg