Liggett: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Anyone researching Liggett should also look under Leggett. The name is generally explained as “Legate, envoy”.

• Related forms: Leggatt.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• Spelled with “i” instead of “e”, Liggett shows how the same name was heard and written differently.
• The 2010 census count for Liggett in the United States was 4,535, good for rank 7,348.

Liggett coat of arms

Arms linked to Leggett and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Research your Liggett family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.