Eklen is used as a family name or surname in Germany. It is 5 characters long in length.
The family name is a variant of Acland. Now a farm in the parish of Landkey; it is thus described in West cote's Devonshire:— 'Then Landkey or Londkey; and therein Acland, or rather Aukeland, as taking name from a grove of oaks, for by such an one the house is seated, and hath given name and long habitation to the clarous family of the Aclands, which have many years here flourished in worshipful degree.' Hugh de Accalen is the first recorded ancestor; he was living in 1155, from whom the present Sir Thomas Dyke Acland is twenty-second in lineal descent.
Eklen is the variant of Acland. From the situation of their ancient seat in Lankey, near Barnstaple, county Devon, which being in the midst of a large grove of oaks (in Saxon ac), obtained the name of Ac or Oakland. They were settled in this place as early as the reign of Henry II." Kimber's Barts.
A form of the Ecklund. Oak grove.
Eklen is variation of the Acland. One who came from Acland or Acca's lane, in Devonshire.
Family name is the variant form of Eklund. Oak grove.
Eklen is form of Auckland. Bishop Auckland, and three other places in county of Durham.