Aikman Family History
- Aikman Name Meaning
- Scottish: apparently a nickname meaning ‘oak man’, from Scots aik ‘oak’ + man ‘man’. Scottish: alternatively, perhaps a derivative of an Old English personal name Agemund. Americanized spelling of Dutch Eyckman or Yckman (more commonly Eyckmeester), a 17th-century occupational name for someone whose job was to maintain standards, especially of the contents of wine casks, from Dutch ijken ‘calibrate’, ‘measure’, ‘gauge’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 93,500 Historical Documents with Aikman on Ancestry
- 29,026 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 20,434 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,701 Military Records
- 4,502 Immigration Records
- 36,837 Member Trees
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Number of Aikman families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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