American Family Name Origins:
Ackermann
Frequency: (934)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. German: from Middle High German ackerman ‘plowman’, ‘peasant’. The German term did not have the same denotation of status in the feudal system as its English counterpart Ackerman.
2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Acker.
GIVEN NAMES: German 11%. Kurt (8), Otto (4), Ernst (2), Erwin (2), Franz (2), Hans (2), Rainer (2), Armin, Bernd, Dieter, Fritz, Gerhard.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
