Beggs Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Arms linked to Begg and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

What Beggs means

Genealogists group Beggs with Begg. In origin, the name means “Small”.

Beggs adds a patronymic ending to Begg, meaning ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. The same family of names includes Beg. The 2010 census count for Beggs in the United States was 4,590, good for rank 7,261. It sits within the 10,000 most common last names in the country. Beggs sounds close to Baggs, Biggs and Buggs, so it can help to search both.

Research your Beggs family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.