English: perhaps a variant of Ackland or a habitational
name from places in North Yorkshire and Middlesborough called Acklam,
from Old English æt þ?m ac leaum (dative
plural) ‘at the oak clearings’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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