Last name origins & meanings:
- 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’.
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