Taggert Family Crest & Name History

Many Taggert families will find their roots under Taggart, the form most records use. The name is generally explained as “The son of the priest”.

Spelling and variants

Spelled with “e” instead of “a”, Taggert shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. Other spellings include McTaggart.

Taggert ranked 64,200 in the 2010 US Census, with 310 people answering to the name.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Taggart and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

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