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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of Swedish and Norwegian Akre.
  • Possibly an altered form of the English surname Ackary, which is derived from the personal name Zacharias, through misdivision in Middle English of Latin filius Zachariae ‘son of Zachary’.

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