American Family Name Origins:
Ackland
Frequency: (193)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: 1. habitational name from Acland Barton in Landkey, Devon, named with the Old English personal name Acca + Old English lanu ‘lane’. 2. habitational name from a minor place named from Old English āc ‘oak’ + land ‘land’. One such was in Oxfordshire.
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