Tigges
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Frequency: (432)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. North German (especially Rhineland): variant of Thieges (see Tiegs).
2. Dutch: patronymic, perhaps from a pet form of a Germanic personal name composed of the unattested word þēudo ‘people’, ‘nation’ + gār, gēr ‘spear’.
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