Last name origins & meanings:
- German: (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.
- German: (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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