Aker
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Obsolete spelling of acre
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈækɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 98K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 7.3K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 276 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Obsolete spelling of acre.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Aker is read(measured from records)
Aker is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English47%
Obsolete spelling of acre.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Egyptian earth god
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Turkish37%
Dürüst, güvenilir erkek.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aker 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Aker | 20 |
| CN China | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Aker | 3 |
| US United States | 3,408 | 1 in 98K | 3.4K | Aker | 276 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Aker | 20 |
| NO Norway | 744 | 1 in 7.3K | 744 | Aker | 36 |
| NL Netherlands | 204 | 1 in 85K | 204 | Aker | 30 |
| FI Finland | 78 | 1 in 71K | 78 | — | 2 |
| IS Iceland | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 1 | Aker | 1 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Aker 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 euq-pro, billy-goat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wym, field (wide, open space used to grow crops)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, field (piece of arable land)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Lambert Klaasz Akerb. 1616NL(1616 - 1690) Mennonite preacher
- Şefik Akerb. 1877TRTurkish military officer and statesperson (1877–1964)
- Mustafa Ertuğrul Akerb. 1892TRTurkish military officer and statesperson (1892–1968)
- Abdullah Akerb. 1905TRTurkish statesperson (1905–1977)
- Jack Akerb. 1940USbaseball player (born 1940)
- Ülkü Akerb. 1943TRTurkish writer (born 1946)
- Don Akerb. 1955CACanadian writer
- Filiz Akerb. 1963TRTurkish actor (1963–2017)
- Neslihan Akerb. 1983TRTurkish actor (born 1983)
- Tim Akerb. 1985GBBritish politician (born 1985)
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)
Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Aker mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of acre. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Aker?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈækɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Aker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.0 thousand people named Aker in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aker.
- Where is Aker most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aker is densest in Norway — about 1 in 7.3 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Aker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,408 people named Aker in 2010, about 1 in 98 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Aker?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akerThe 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, “Aker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.