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The ackerman Surname

ackerman Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch: occupational name from akkerman ‘plowman’; a frequent name in New Netherland in the 17th century. Later, it probably absorbed some cases of the cognate German and Swedish names, Ackermann and Åkerman respectively.
  2. English: from a medieval term denoting feudal status, Middle English akerman (Old English æcerman, from æcer ‘field, acre’ + man ‘man’). Typically, an ackerman was a bond tenant of a manor holding half a virgate of arable land, for which he paid by serving as a plowman. The term was also used generically to denote a plowman or husbandman.
  3. Variant of German and Jewish Ackermann.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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ackerman Family Facts

Distribution of ackerman Families in the US in 1920
Number of ackerman families
 459-915
 154-458		 1-153
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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