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Franklin Name Meaning
English: status name from Middle English frankelin
‘franklin’, a technical term of the feudal system, from Anglo-Norman
French franc ‘free’ (see Frank 2) + the Germanic suffix
-ling. The status of the franklin varied somewhat according to
time and place in medieval England; in general, he was a free man and
a holder of fairly extensive areas of land, a gentleman ranked above
the main body of minor freeholders but below a knight or a member of
the nobility.The surname is also borne by Jews, in which case it
represents an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish
surnames.In modern times, this has been used to Americanize
François, the French form of Francis.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Franklin Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Franklin families
 674 - 1,345  225 - 673 |
 1 - 224  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Franklin families
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1,373 - 2,744 458 - 1,372 |
1 - 457 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Franklin families
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17 - 32 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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