Family name origins & meanings
- French : from Old French vignes ‘vines’, a metonymic occupational name for the owner of a vineyard or a vine dresser, or a habitational name from any of several places named with this word.
- Norwegian (also Vigness) : habitational name from a farm name in Ryfylke; the first element is of uncertain origin, the second element is nes ‘headland’, ‘promontory’.