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asker Name Meaning and History

  1. Turkish: occupational name from asker ‘soldier’, from Arabic ?askari. This name is also found in Iran and the Indian subcontinent.
  2. Arabic: variant of Asghar.
  3. Greek: shortened form of Askeris, from Turkish asker ‘soldier’, or from Askeridis or Askeropoulos, patronymics from this word. Compare Laskaris.
  4. Norwegian and Swedish: habitational name from any of several farmsteads named Asker, in particular those near Oslo, from an inflected form of ask ‘ash tree’.
  5. English (Norfolk): topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree, Middle English ask (from Old Norse asker) + the habitational suffix -er.
  6. English: from Middle English asker(e) ‘collector of tolls or revenues’ or (in a legal context) ‘plaintiff’ or ‘prosecutor’ (an agent derivative of Middle English aske(n) ‘to ask’, ‘to demand’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of asker Families in the US in 1920
Number of asker families
 15-27
 6-14		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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