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Figgins is a surname. The name Figgins appears first in 13th century Wiltshire, England, and may have Norman roots (many of the peoples of medieval England by this time had ancestors who came across to England with the Norman invasion of 1066 AD).
According to genealogists, the surname Figgins also exists as a permutation of the Irish Gaelic Ó hUigín (from Vikings) and Ó Faodhagáin or Ó hAodhagáin (descendant of Egan), from which Fagan, Feagan, Wiggins, Higgins and many others also derive, as a result of the Anglicization of the name.
The earliest records of the name in formal documents date from the 16th Century, with increasing references in the 17th Century as more and better records began to be kept (e.g. births, marriages, and deaths as recorded by local parish churches).
People with the Figgins surname include:
- Vincent Figgins (born 1766, d. ?), English typeface designer
- Chone Figgins (born 1978), American baseball player
- Morgan Figgins (born 1992), American figure skater
- Principal Figgins, situation comedy character in the American television programme, Glee, as played by Pakistan-born Iqbal Theba
Usage examples of "figgins".
The brutish, broken face which moved into the light was well known to be Dan Figgins, ex-heavyweight boxing champion of Glasgow and London, now a bookmaker with a reputation for very rough and unfavourable handling should his clients fail to settle on time.
Thomas Tooth owed thirty pounds to Dan Figgins to be paid by midnight.
The congregation of drunks and whores grew silent as the giant mot and the fierce Figgins locked eyes, hers bigger and even more blue than his own.
Marybelle sighed at his touch then smiled a most beatific smile at Dan Figgins, dropped her arms to her side, and in a voice astonishingly sweet and pure started to sing.
Even Figgins was taken up by two whores, who whirled him across the room and planted copious kisses upon his broken face.
Dan Figgins, who was threatening to take his life on the stroke of midnight.
I see that Sir Benjamin Blowhard, old Grummet, poor Marlin, and Kelson, Lord Figgins, as we used to call him, Dick Dotheboys, and Oakum, have gone the way of all flesh.
It would be delightful if young Figgins were to ask Ernest home for the holidays.
I should have thought Figgins would have been just the kind of boy whom you might have asked to come and see us.
Ernest had hardly known him, and Figgins, being nearly three years older than Ernest, had left long before he did.