Acker comes from German or Old English, meaning "ploughed field"; it is related to or an alternate spelling of the word acre.
[1][2] Therefore, Ackerman means "ploughman".
Ackerman is also a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname of Yiddish origin with the same meaning.
The Ashkenazi surname Ackerman sometimes refers to the town of Akkerman in Bessarabia, south-west of Odessa.
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