American Family Name Origins:
Agricola
Frequency: (121)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German and Dutch: humanistic surname, a translation into Latin of German Bauer or Dutch Boer ‘farmer’.
GIVEN NAMES: Dutch 6%; German 4%. Algert (2), Cornelis; Aloys, Otto.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
