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Surname Etymology and Meaning of AIKMAN

Name meanings and etymologies are often disputed. The information here is compiled from freely available sources, and no claims whatsoever are made for accuracy, either historical or etymological.

1. Scottish: apparently a nickname meaning ‘oak man’, from Scots aik ‘oak’ + man ‘man’.
2. Scottish: alternatively, perhaps a derivative of an Old English personal name Agemund.
3. Americanized spelling of Dutch Eyckman or Yckman (more commonly Eyckmeester), a 17th-century occupational name for someone whose job was to maintain standards, especially of the contents of wine casks, from Dutch ijken ‘calibrate’, ‘measure’, ‘gauge’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)