I wonder why Edit: interesting, this seems to be mainly an English phenomenon, a lot of examples but they are all from other languages. The exception being Biggs, although I've never met a Biggs.

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[–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago

True, I did think of Long, although the etymology of that one isn't always clear. For Irish people apparently "Long" is derived from the Gaelic word for seafarer.

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