Ackerman Family History
Ackerman Name Meaning
Dutch: occupational name from akkerman ‘plowman’; a
frequent name in New Netherland in the 17th century. Later, it
probably absorbed some cases of the cognate German and Swedish names,
Ackermann and Åkerman respectively.English: from a medieval term denoting feudal status, Middle
English akerman (Old English æcerman, from
æcer ‘field, acre’ + man ‘man’). Typically, an
ackerman was a bond tenant of a manor holding half a virgate of arable
land, for which he paid by serving as a plowman. The term was also
used generically to denote a plowman or husbandman.Variant
of German and Jewish Ackermann.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Ackerman Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ackerman families
 459 - 915  154 - 458 |
 1 - 153  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ackerman families
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70 - 138 24 - 69 |
1 - 23 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ackerman families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ackerman Family Origin
Ackerman Immigration Information
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Ackerman Family Occupations
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