Frequency: (158)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Norwegian (Åkre): habitational name from any of several places so named, from an inflected form of Old Norse akr ‘plowed field’.
GIVEN NAMES: Scandinavian 14%. Hjalmer, Knute, Nels, Obert, Selmer, Steinar.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
