About the Biggerstaff Surname

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Biggerstaff, so the heraldry linked to Bickerstaff is a starting point, not an automatic right.

What Biggerstaff means

Spellings drift, and Biggerstaff is where Bickerstaff drifted for some families. The name is usually explained as “Beekeepers' landing”.

Before spelling was fixed, Bickerstaff was also written Biggerstaff. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. You may also find the name written Bickerstaffe. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Biggerstaff with 3,035 bearers, at rank 10,560. That puts it among the top 25,000 US surnames.

Get the complete Biggerstaff report, with a museum-style coat of arms.