Akre
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Frequency: (248)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Norwegian and Swedish (Åkre): topographic name for someone living by a piece of plowed land, from an inflected form of aker, åker ‘plowed field’. This is also found as a place name, and so the origin in some cases may be habitational. See Aker.
GIVEN NAMES: Scandinavian 6%. Elert, Ordell, Thor.
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