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Surname Etymology and Meaning of ACKERS

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(origin: Saxon.) Camden derives this surname from the Latin Ager, a field. The name, however, is Saxon, and signifies the place of oaks, or oak-man; ac and ake being old terms for oak. The termination er, in many nouns has the same signification as the Latin vir, a man--as Plower, i. e., Plowman; Baker, Bakerman. Like oak, the first Acker might have been firm and unyielding in his disposition, or he might have used or sold acorns.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

1. English: variant of Akers.
2. Altered form of Acker.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)