Last name origin & meaning: South German and Swiss German: from Middle High German anken
‘butter’ + būr ‘farmer’, hence an occupational name for a
dairy farmer. Alternatively, the first element may be a topographic
term, Anke, meaning ‘slight rise in the ground’, or an old term
ank ‘watery’, hence ‘farmer with fields in a wet area’.
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