First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Swiss German: topographic name for someone whose homestead was next to a mountain slope or on the edge of a village, from Middle High German anligen, -licken ‘to lie next to’ + -er suffix denoting an inhabitant .