Frequency: (161)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Norwegian: habitational name from a place in Akershus, which is apparently named from Old Norse agno̧r ‘fishhook’, ‘harpoon barb’, presumably with reference to some topographic feature such as the shape of a neighboring mountain or a crook in a stream.
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