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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name, derived from a misdivision of van den nokere ‘from the nut (tree)’ (Middle Dutch noker) + man ‘man’.
  • Dutch : variant of Ackerman, from akker ‘field’ + man ‘man’, a topographic name, or an occupational name for a farmer.
  • German (Ockermann) : variant of Ocker 1.

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