Aker Family History
- Aker Name Meaning
- Norwegian and Swedish (Åker): from åker ‘plowed field’, applied either as an ornamental or a topographic name. Possibly a variant of English, German, and Dutch Acker or of German Eicher.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 140,174 Historical Documents with Aker on Ancestry
- 42,725 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 19,605 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,153 Military Records
- 1,579 Immigration Records
- 71,112 Member Trees
Ready to discover your family story?
Simply start with yourself and we'll do the searching for you.
Number of Aker families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Aker families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Aker census records
You can see how Aker families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
Click on a place to view Aker immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Aker families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
Click on a circle in the chart to view Aker emigration records
You can find out when most of the Aker families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Aker census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Aker ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Akers fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
×