American Family Name Origins:
Achziger
Frequency: (138)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: 1. (Achtziger) from achtzig ‘eighty’ + the agent suffix -er, in various possible applications, as for example a member of a council of eighty men, or a man obliged to pay regularly eighty units of currency in taxes. 2. (in southern Baden) modification of Achpiger, a habitational name for someone from Echbeck (Middle High German Ahbinge), a village in southern Württemberg situated on a bend (Bieg) of the river Aach.
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