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Ackerman (S)>

Ackerman (surname)

Variants:Acker (S) Acreman (S) Akerman (S)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

1. English and Ashkenazic Jewish, from Middle English and Old High German, meaning "field" + "man", for someone who lived by a pasture.

2. English, a feudal term for a "ploughman" or, by extension, "a farmer".