Last name origin & meaning: German and Dutch: from the personal name Achatz, a
vernacular form of the Biblical name Ahaz (2 Kings 16:1), which
means ‘he (i.e. God) has made fast’. The Latinate form Achatius
is attested as a surname in Pforzheim in 1556, and may have a
different origin: Achatius was a Byzantine saint, a Roman
soldier believed to have been crucified, supposedly with 10,000
companions, on Mount Ararat during the reign of Hadrian; his name is
probably a derivative of Achates, the name of Aeneas’s faithful
Trojan companion in Virgil’s Aeneid.
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