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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of Swiss German Eglin.
  • English : perhaps a variant of Ackland or a habitational name from places in North Yorkshire and Middlesborough called Acklam, from Old English æt þǣm āc lēaum (dative plural) ‘at the oak clearings’.

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