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The anker Surname

anker Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from Middle High German anker ‘anchor’, applied either as an occupational name for a smith who made ships’ anchors or as a habitational name from a house identified by an anchor.
  2. English: from the Old French personal name Anchier (see Angier).
  3. Norwegian and Swedish: probably originally a Swedish soldier’s name meaning ‘anchor’. This is the name of a powerful and influential Norwegian family, who came to Christiana (Oslo) from Sweden in 1668.
  4. Danish: from a personal name, of which the first element means ‘eagle’ and the second (probably) ‘violent’.
  5. Americanized form of northern French Anquier, from a personal name of Germanic origin (see Angier).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of anker Families in the US in 1920
Number of anker families
 21-40
 8-20		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 29 - Messages: 103
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Matilda Augusta Anker married Herman Liscom Ward dljjkb 1
ANKER family branches Mark B. Cohn 2
Cheshire Ankers DeniseMarr41 11
Anker - Whittlesey / Whittlesea, Cambs, UK David Anker 8
Eliza Ankers pattiz26 1
ANKER Patricia Ann, obit , 1939 - 2007 LorraineGilmer02 0
ANKER/ANKERS of Manchester DNadin 10
Ankers of York Sue Revell 0
ANKER, ANCAR Lorrie Anker 6
Anker Family rmillar10 1
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