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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.

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