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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (South Yorkshire) : habitational name from Wigfield (earlier Wigfall) Farm, Worsbrough, named with the Old English personal name Wicga or Old English wicga ‘beetle’ + (ge)fall ‘forest clearing’.

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