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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Swiss German: altered form of Ankner, an occupational name for a dairyman who made and sold butter, from Swiss German anke ‘butter’, ankenen ‘to make butter’.
  2. Dewalt Ankeny (1728–81) came to Philadelphia on the ship Neptune in 1746.
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