Anker.
a male given name from Danish
Meaning & usage
a male given name from Danish
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Danish Anker (“male given name”). The Danish name is a two-element name, with the first element meaning “harvest work, seasonal farm work” and the second element corresponding to kar (“man, fellow”); originally a byname meaning “farmhand, harvest worker”. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk Anker, Danish Anker and Faroese Anker (“male given name”).
a surname originating as an occupation, from an occupational byname referring to an anchor smith or anchor maker
Where this word comes from
From the Danish-Norwegian and Swedish surname Anker, earlier also Ancher. The best-known Norwegian family of this name came to Norway from Sweden in 1668 with Erich Olsen Ancher; the family name is connected with his father Olof Erichsson, an ankersmed (“anchor smith”) in Gothenburg. Compare Danish Anker, Swedish Anker, German Anker and Dutch Anker (“surname”).
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