Last name: DIGGES
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DIGGES : This last name is indexed 12,912 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
DIGGES : English (Wiltshire):: 1: variant of Dicks from the personal name Digge a variant of Dick with voicing of the final consonant.2: alternatively a nickname from Middle English digge ‘duck’ with post-medieval excrescent -s probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept caught or sold ducks or for someone thought to resemble a duck in some way.
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