The tack Surname
tack Name Meaning and History
- from a reduced form of Frisian Tjadeke, a pet form of any of several compound personal names with the first element thiod- (from Germanic theudo- ‘people’, ‘race’; compare Tabbert 2).
- alternatively from a short form of a personal name formed with Old High German tac ‘day’ + berht ‘bright’.
- alternatively, perhaps from tak ‘twig’, ‘sprout’, ‘branch’, Middle Low German tack(e) ‘twig’. This may have been an ironic nickname for a big man, or a nickname for a hard worker.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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