AckerMann
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plowman, ploughman (British spelling) (male or of unspecified gender) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈakɐˌman/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
AckerMann is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 79th most common surname. AckerMann is also written אקרמן in Hebrew, อัลคามัน in Thai and Ακερμαν in Greek.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.3K
- UYUruguay1 in 6.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than AckerMann itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 456 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
25,401 named Ackerman, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
AckerMann in other scripts: Latin, Hebrew, Thai and 1 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ackerman in US United States, GB United Kingdom, ZA South Africa and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce AckerMann
- German:/ˈakɐˌman/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/akceɾmann/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)plowman, ploughman (British spelling) (male or of unspecified gender)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname AckerMann is found
(measured from records)AckerMann counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 25,401as Ackerman | 1 in 13K | 25K | Ackerman | 456 |
| DE Germany | #195 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | AckerMann | 186 |
| ZA South Africa | #786 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Ackerman | 91 |
| CH Switzerland | #79 | 4,773 | 1 in 1.8K | 4.8K | AckerMann | 87 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Ackerman | 156 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 3,531as Akkerman | 1 in 4.9K | 3.5K | AckerMann | 26 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,126as Åkerman | 1 in 4.8K | 2.1K | Ackerman | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,123as Åkerman | 1 in 5K | 1.1K | AckerMann | 6 |
25,401 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)AckerMann is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname: Ackerbauer, Pflüger; Beleg: 8905.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
A plough man or peasant.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Under Rhine, a peasant.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Wilhelm Ackermannb. 1896DEGerman mathematician best known for the Ackermann function (1896–1962)
- Rosemarie Ackermannb. 1952DEGerman former high jumper
- Oliver Ackermannb. 1976USAmerican musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name AckerMann mean, and where does it come from?
- plowman, ploughman (British spelling) (male or of unspecified gender) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name AckerMann?
- In the etymology graph, Ackerman and Acreman are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce AckerMann?
- It depends on the language: in German /ˈakɐˌman/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /akceɾmann/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname AckerMann?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Ackerman, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Germany, South Africa, Switzerland and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is AckerMann most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, AckerMann is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name AckerMann?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 4,773 people named AckerMann in 2024, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is AckerMann compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, AckerMann is the 79th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ackermannThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “AckerMann” — ranked 1300th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.