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The acker Surname

acker Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch and German: topographic name from Middle High German and Middle Dutch acker ‘(cultivated) field’, hence a byname for a peasant.
  2. English: topographic name for someone living by a piece of cultivated land, from Middle English aker ‘acre’, ‘field’ (Old English æcer). Compare Akers.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Acker ‘field’ (see 1).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The acker name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the acker family name as far back in history as possible.

acker Family Facts

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Distribution of acker Families in the US in 1920
Number of acker families
 212-421
 71-211		 1-70
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 215 - Messages: 573
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Henry Acker 1798 of Nova Scotia Terri (Houghton) Hamblin 1
John Acker b. 1801 Sandy Hill NY Gretchen Acker 1
Peekskill Ackers gcruger1 4
Joseph P Acker, son of David D. and Eleanor Vanderbilt Acker bcoug 0
Elizabeth Acker John Nick 1
Lilyan Acker snapdragon_car 0
Flora Maud Acker & Walter Hearns gmarieboice 1
Henry Edgar Acker John Hannigan 0
Carlene Whitford Warner Acker Obit Obitslenaweecounty 0
C. S. ACKER, death, Nebraska carol10vej 0
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