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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German ackerman ‘plowman’, ‘peasant’. The German term did not have the same denotation of status in the feudal system as its English counterpart Ackerman.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Acker.

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