Åkre

surname · Latin script

Meaning: indefinite plural of åker

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

Åkre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • NONorway1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 237K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 467K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

595 people, 2010

Record sources
17 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Akre in US United States, IN India.

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)

indefinite plural of åker

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Åkre 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 Åkre is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5951 in 559K595Akre12
NO Norway4901 in 11K490Åkre17
SE Sweden431 in 237K43Åkre4
CH Switzerland181 in 467K18—1
IN India151 in 88M15Akre2
BE Belgium41 in 2.9M4——

595 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Åkre is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, United Kingdom, Sweden

    Languages: English, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Aakre, Akre, Akré

  • English surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Turkish

    Also written Akre, Akrê, Akré, Akrè, Akrė

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Akre, Akré

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Akre, Akré, Âkrê

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Akre

1 further group 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Åkre
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—490#2,820
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—18#27,570

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Åkre mean, and where does it come from?
indefinite plural of åker Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Åkre have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 595 people named Åkre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akre.
Where is Åkre most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Åkre is densest in Norway — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Åkre?
In the United States, the national register counted 595 people named Åkre in 2010, about 1 in 559 thousand residents.

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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, “Åkre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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