Last name origins & meanings:
- German humanistic name or soldier’s name, with reference to the
prowess and near invulnerability of the classical Greek hero, the
leading warrior of the Greek army at the siege of Troy (Greek
Akhilleus).
- In other cases, possibly an Americanized form
of names in other languages based on Greek Akhilleus, such as
Italian Achille (three syllables), French Achille (two
syllables).
- Heinrich Ludwig Achilles was born in c. 1746, probably in
either Gremscheim or Ammenden, Germany. He emigrated from Brunswick
(Braunschweig), and settled in Weare, NH, in 1776. He served in the
Hessian army under General Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777.
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