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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived next to a field, Middle Dutch ack(e)re, or a habitational name for someone from a place named with this word.
  • Dutch : Alternatively, it may be a habitational name for someone from Aachen, a variant of Van Aken.

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