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Biggi has a stock in central-eastern Liguria, Carrara, Parma, Piacenza and Pavia. Biggio has a lineage in the Genoese and one in the Cagliari area. Bigi is very widespread in Emilia, especially in the Reggio and Modena areas, in Tuscany in the Florentine and Arezzo and Umbria, Bigio, extremely rare, has a stock in San Remo (IM) and one in Portoferraio (LI), Bigioli is characteristic of Pieve Santo Stefano (AR), Bigiolli, very very rare, is typical of the Dubino area in Valtellina, traces of this surname in the area of Sondri have been found since the 1600s, Bigiotti has a stock in Buglio In Monte (SO, one in Florence and one in Grotte di Castro (VT), all these surnames should derive, directly or through hypocorisms, from nicknames originated from the term gray (gray) perhaps due to the fact that the progenitor had gray hair or beard. We find traces of these surnames in Roccatagliata in the Genoese in a deed of 1468, where they are among the subscribers Longo de the Biggi, Giacomino dei Biggi, Pasquale Antonio and Bernardo dei Biggi, Guglielmo dei Biggi, Marco and Giacomino dei Biggi, Nicolao dei Biggi, all citizens of Fontanigorda always in the Genoese dialect, in a deed of 1767 in Priosa d'Aveto always in the Genoese we find 19 Biggio families.
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