The akre Surname
akre Name Meaning and History
Norwegian and Swedish (Åkre): topographic name for
someone living by a piece of plowed land, from an inflected form of
aker, åker ‘plowed field’. This is also found as a
place name, and so the origin in some cases may be habitational. See
Aker.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Holly Louise Akre 1969-2009 |
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| Obit: Jean (Akre) Meng (1931-2007) |
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| Akre | annemarie | 0 |
| Akre, Ole A. |
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| Akre, Harold | Charlene Akre | 0 |
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