Family name origins & meanings
- Americanized form of German Hinterleitner, a topographic name for someone who lived ‘at the farther slope (into the valley)’, ‘behind the mountain spur’, from Middle High German hinter ‘behind’ + līte ‘mountain spur’, ‘slope’ (see Leitner).
- Bearers of this surname trace their ancestry to Johann Caspar Hinterleitner (1709–80), who emigrated from Dietfurt, Bavaria, Germany, to Marborough township, Montgomery Co., PA.