What We Know About the Twigg Surname

Coats of arms were borne by individual families. If arms are recorded under the Twigg name, our researchers explain whose they were and how they were blazoned.

What Twigg means

Twigg is an English surname. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “descendant of Twicga (twig)”.

Like many surnames, it grew out of a personal name. Smith also lists Twiggs. 3,219 Americans were listed as Twigg in the 2010 census. That puts it among the top 25,000 US surnames.

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