English: occupational name for the servant of someone who bore
the personal name Jack.
English: Americanized form of
French Jacquème (see James).
Americanized
form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Americanized spelling of German Jachmann or
Jackmann, from a Czech pet form of a name ultimately from the
Biblical name Yochanam (see John) + Middle High German
man ‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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