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clack Name Meaning and History

English: from a Middle English personal name Clac, which is from Old English Clacc or the Old Norse cognate Klakkr. As a personal name this is from a word meaning ‘lump’ and may have been used as a nickname for a large or thickset man. Reaney suggests that it could also be from clacker ‘chatterer’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of clack Families in the US in 1920
Number of clack families
 53-103
 18-52		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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