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Akre Family History

Akre Name Meaning
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.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

10,801 Historical Documents & Family Trees with Akre
2,579 Census and Voter Lists
533 Immigration Records
2,552 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
4,800 Member Family Trees
337 Military Records

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Name Distribution of Akre Families

  • Number of Akre families
     12 - 22
     5 - 11
     1 - 4
     
    from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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    from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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    from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

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Akre Family Origin

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Akre Immigration Information

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Average Life Expectancy for Akre

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Akre Family Occupations

from 1880 Federal Census Data

Akre census records

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Akre Civil War Service Records

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