When Ake Tufvesson was born on 29 December 1808, in Genarp, Bara, Malmöhus, Sweden, his father, Tufve Pehrsson, was 31 and his mother, Ellna Akesdotter, was 30.
Of recent origin. Possibly from a Germanic element ano ‘ancestor’. It has been linked to the Latin name Achatius ‘agate’.
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