Acklam

English

Etymology

From Old English āc (“oak”) + leum (“clearing”).

Proper noun

Acklam (countable and uncountable, plural Acklams)

1. A suburb of Middlesbrough borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ477168).
2. A village and civil parish in Ryedale district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE784617).
3. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Acklam is the 16566^th most common surname in England, belonging to 301 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Acklam”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.