Aken

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Aken means:

the city of Aken (Elbe) in Saxony-Anhalt
in Dutch and Low German the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Aachen
another spelling for the Egyptian deity Cherti

Aken is the family name of the following people:

Adolf Friedrich Aken (1815–1870), German philologist and educator
Adolph Christoph von Aken (1713–1768), German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author
Johann Aken (around 1629–1689), Baroque painter active in the Baltic Sea region

See also

van Aken