Last Name FRANKLIN

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Meaning	The franklin, a freeholder. The 'g' in Frankling is an excrescence, like in Jennings. Anciently, in England, a "superior freeholder," next below gentlemen in dignity, later called country Squires. Fortescue says (De Leg. Ang.), "Moreover England is so filled and replenished with landed menne, that therein the smallest thorpe can not be found wherin dwelleth not a knight or an esquire, or such a householder as is there commonly called a 'Franklin,' enriched with great possessions, and also other freeholders, and many yeomen, able for their livelyhood to make a jury in form aforementioned." So Chaucer, in his Canterbury Tales; "A Franklin was in this companie, White was his beard, as is the dayesie."

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish, Haitian, Belgian, South african, Hungarian

Rank	236 (2000 US census)	199 (1990 US census)

Count	114,859 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

57.22%, or 65722 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
37.78%, or 43394 total occurrences, as black,
0.45%, or 517 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.87%, or 999 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.96%, or 2251 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.71%, or 1964 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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