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Wiggs is derived from Wigg for which the Dictionary of American Family Names has the following origins:

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English (southeastern):

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1 probably a nickname from Middle English wicga ‘beetle’.

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2 metonymic occupational name for a maker of buns or fancy breads baked in rounds and then divided up into wedge-shaped slices, from Middle English wygge, from Middle Dutch wigge ‘wedge(-shaped cake)’.