Akkerman: Surname History and Family Crest

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Akkerman, so the heraldry linked to Ackerman is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Family name meaning

Search old registers for Akkerman and you will soon meet Ackerman too. The family name meaning is “farmer, ploughman”, the same as for Ackerman.

Only a small detail separates the spellings: Akkerman has “k” where Ackerman has “c”. Other spellings include Acreman. The 2010 US Census counted 501 people named Akkerman, ranking it number 43,151 among American surnames. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames. Akkerman sounds close to Akkermann and Ackermann, so it can help to search both.

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