Surname Evolution: Akerfelds

The surname “Akerfelds” doesn’t really make linguistic sense. It is a Germanic name, and literally translated from German means “fields, fields”. The surname is also not even used prior to 1900. It seems it was either a secondary surname to Grinbergs, or evolved informally, through word-of-mouth and clerical mis-spellings from “Eichenfeld” (“oak field”). Below are some examples of the surname through different churchbooks (Embute and Skrunda) through the years…

It can be found “Akerfelds”, “Hackerfeld”, “Hagenfeld”, “Hakenfeld”, “Eichenfeld”, “Eikenfeld” and either “Grinberg alias…” or “Gruenberg alias…”

Ernests Hakenfeld alias Grinberg

Evalds Eichenfeld alias Grinberg

Ieva Hackerfeld

Janis Hakenfeld

Jekabs Gruenberg alias Akerfeld

Kristaps Eikenfeld

Kristaps Grinberg alias Hakenfeld

Kristaps Hakerfeld

Ernests Akerfeld

Ernests Hagenfeld alias Grinberg

Annlise Hagenfeld (in Russian “also Akerfeld”)

 

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