Ackerman

English

Etymology

From Middle English acker (“field”) +‎ -man. Originally denoted a farmer who did not own the fields he worked.

Proper noun

Ackerman (countable and uncountable, plural Ackermans)

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.
    • 2017 September 19, Ryan Graudin, Invictus‎[1], →ISBN, unnumbered page:
      Wherever Eliot went, Agent Ackerman appeared five seconds later, automatically locked onto her coordinates.
  2. A town, the county seat of Choctaw County, Mississippi, United States.

Derived terms

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Ackerman is the 1398th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 25,401 individuals. Ackerman is most common among White (93.47%) individuals.
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