Driggers

Driggers is a surname most often originating in the Southeastern United States. The surname derives from "Driggus", which derived from the Portuguese name Rodrigues.

Notable people with the surname include:

Emanuel Driggers (born c. 1620s–d. 1685), paternal ancestor of the Driggers families in the United States
Nate Driggers (born 1973), American basketball player
Scott Driggers (born 1962), American handball player

See also

Driggers D1-A, American monoplane
Walt Driggers Field, baseball venue in Texas, United States

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References

↑ Knight, Thomas Daniel (12 September 2025). "Migration in the Early Chesapeake: Dorchester Co., MD, as a Case Study, 1650–1750". Genealogy. 9 (3). University of Texas Rio Grande Valley: 96. doi:10.3390/genealogy9030096. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
↑ Goetz, Rebecca Anne (2016). "Emanuel Driggus (fl. 1645–1685)". Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Library of Virginia. Richmond, VA. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
↑ Berlin, Ira (April 1996). "From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African- American Society in Mainland North America". The William and Mary Quarterly. 53 (2). Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture: 251–288. doi:10.2307/2947401. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
↑ Hashaw, Tim (2007). The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown. New York, NY: Carroll & Graf Publishers. pp. 174–176. ISBN 978-0-78671-718-7. Retrieved 12 June 2026.