The ACKERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	417	47735	0	1
United States (1880 census)	180	20875	0	4
Change since 1880	+237	-26860	+N/A	-3
Other Countries
Australia	113	12793	0.001	7
United Kingdom	750	6578	0.002	16

Top States for ACKERS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	50	25726	0.000	4
Pennsylvania	37	38179	0.000	3
Texas	34	36663	0.000	2
California	32	65907	0.000	1
Illinois	30	44340	0.000	2
Top States for ACKERS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nevada	11	20760	0.001	6
Ohio	50	25726	0.000	4
Louisiana	19	18939	0.000	4
Alabama	16	15796	0.000	4
Virginia	22	24146	0.000	3

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ACKERS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ACKERS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ACKERS in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ACKERS by picking someone at random in Nevada than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ACKERS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ACKERS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ACKERS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ACKERS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	285	68.35
Black/African American	111	26.62
Mixed Race	16	3.84
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	0
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant
White (Hispanic)	Less than 100	Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ACKERS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ACKERS in historical publications

(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.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

ACKER. ACKERS. See under Akerman.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to ACKERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ACKERS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.