AckerMann

surname · Latin script

Meaning: plowman, ploughman (British spelling) (male or of unspecified gender)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/akɐman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 3.7K
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 9.2Kas Ackerman

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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

25,401 named Ackerman, 2010

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
456 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AckermanLatin(measured from records)
אקרמןHebrew(measured from records)
อัลคามันThai(measured from records)
ΑκερμανGreek(measured from records)

Locally spelled Ackerman in US United States, ZA South Africa, SE Sweden 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.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

plowman, ploughman (British spelling) (male or of unspecified gender)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(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.

Where AckerMann is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—25,401as Ackerman1 in 13K25KAckerman456
DE Germany#195≈21,000 est.≈1 in 3.7K—AckerMann186
ZA South Africa#786≈6,200 est.≈1 in 9.2K—Ackerman91
ID Indonesia—≈5,100 est.≈1 in 53K—Ackerman27
CH Switzerland#794,7731 in 1.8K4.8KAckerMann87
NL Netherlands—3,531as Akkerman1 in 4.9K3.5KAckerMann26
SE Sweden—2,126as Åkerman1 in 4.8K2.1KAckerman15
FI Finland—1,123as Åkerman1 in 5K1.1KAckerMann6

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

AckerMann is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Australia, United Kingdom

    Also written Ăckermann

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Uruguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ackermánn

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Åckermann, Acker-Mann

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

1400160018002000Alexander Agricola, b. 1446Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, b. 1714Rudolph Ackermann, b. 1764Max Ackermann, b. 1887Wilhelm Ackermann, b. 1896Anton Ackermann, b. 1905Georg Kahn-Ackermann, b. 1918Josef Ackermann, b. 1948Rosemarie Ackermann, b. 1952Oliver Ackermann, b. 1976

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)

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Ackermann, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting AckerMann
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244.8K#122
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.5K#12,432
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.5K#12,118
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.3K#12,553
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007247#8,412
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—83#8,335
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—75#15,964
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 7

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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?
A machine transcription gives /akɐman/ (IPA) for German.
In which country does AckerMann have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Ackerman, more than in any other country we hold.
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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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” — the 79th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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