Acker

At the 2020 census, 9,861 Americans bore the surname Acker — 3,530th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 30,300.

By the numbers

People: 9,861
Rank: 3,530th
How common: 1 in 30,300
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Acker described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.7%
Black, not Hispanic 7.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Acker

Amy Acker (born 1976)American actress
Kathy Acker (1947–1997)American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet
Jean Acker (1893–1978)American actress
Achille Van Acker (1898–1975)Belgian former prime minister
Alex Acker (born 1983)American professional basketball player
Drew Van Acker (born 1986)American actor
Evi Van Acker (born 1985)female Belgian Olympic sailor
Julia Acker (1898–1942)Polish painter

People named Acker with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Acker

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.