Digges Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, Digges is usually a form of Diggs. In origin, the name means “Son of Digg (Richard)”.

• Digges adds “e” to Diggs, a small change that crept in as the name was written down.
• Digges ranked 56,444 in the 2010 US Census, with 362 people answering to the name.
• Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

Heraldry and the Digges name

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Digges, so the heraldry linked to Diggs is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Digges report, with a museum-style coat of arms.