Ackerman Family History
- Ackerman Name Meaning
- 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. 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. Variant of German and Jewish Ackermann.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,008,196 Historical Documents with Ackerman on Ancestry
- 238,775 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 148,660 Census and Voter Lists
- 34,170 Military Records
- 21,334 Immigration Records
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Number of Ackerman families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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