Frankland Name Meaning
English: probably a variant of Franklin with excrescent -d a status name from Middle English frankeleyn ‘freeman freeholder land-owner of free but not noble birth’ (Anglo-Norman French fraunclein) for someone who lived on a piece of land held without obligations of rent or service. Compare Freeland .
Franklin Name Meaning
English: status name from Middle English frankeleyn ‘freeman freeholder land-owner of free but not noble birth’ (Anglo-Norman French fraunclein). In general he was a gentleman ranked above the main body of minor freeholders but below a knight or a member of the nobility. Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames such as Frankel .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Freeland, Franklin, Oakland, Stanaland, Markland, Grantland, Ragland
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts