American Family Name Origins:
Achterberg
Frequency: (251)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Dutch and North German: topographic name for someone who lived ‘behind the hill’, from Dutch and Low German achter ‘behind’, ‘in back of’ + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’. In some cases the Dutch surname is a habitational name from any of various places so named in the Netherlands and Belgium.
GIVEN NAMES: German 5%. Ernst, Hans, Kurt, Lorenz.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
