Higins Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 1
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 1
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 1
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 1
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 1
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 3
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 1
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 1
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Higins Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Higins family

Profession Census Frequency
Labourer 2
Scholar 2
Domestic Servant 2
Dress Maker 1
Puddler Iron 1
General Servant Domestic 1
Coal Miner 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Higins

Name Census Frequency
John Higins 34
James Higins 29
Mary Higins 27
Thomas Higins 18
Elizabeth Higins 16
Ann Higins 14
William Higins 14
Sarah Higins 11
Ellen Higins 10
Margaret Higins 10
Catherine Higins 8
George Higins 8
Henry Higins 7
Jane Higins 7
Robert Higins 6
Charles Higins 5
Eliza Higins 5
Hannah Higins 5
Fanny Higins 4
Michael Higins 4
Annie Higins 3
Caroline Higins 3
Fred Higins 3
Harriet Higins 3
Richard Higins 3

Higins Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Higgins 86% 90,842
2 Hagnes 50% 868
3 Higins 100% 364
4 Hugins 83% 113

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The surname Higins is the 3rd most popular variant of Higgins.

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