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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • French : Messenger

Boy name variations

Leggett

Leggett

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Legate

Legate

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Leggitt

Leggitt

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English (now found mainly in northern Ireland) : topographic name from Middle English lidyate ‘gate in a fence between plowed land and meadow’ (Old English hlid-geat ‘swing-gate’), or a habitational name from one of the places named with this word, as for example Lidgate in Suffolk or Lydiate in Lancashire.

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