Packard Family History
Packard Name Meaning
English: from Middle English pa(c)k ‘pack’, ‘bundle’ + the Anglo-Norman French pejorative suffix -ard, hence a derogatory occupational name for a peddler.English: pejorative derivative of the Middle English personal name Pack.English: from a Norman personal name, Pachard, Baghard, composed of the Germanic elements pac, bag ‘fight’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Packert, Päckert, from Germanic personal names formed with a word meaning ‘battle’ or ‘to fight’; or a variant of Packer 2 (with excrescent -t).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Packard Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Packard families
 228 - 454  77 - 227 |
 1 - 76  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Packard families
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74 - 145 25 - 73 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Packard Family Origin
Packard Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Packard
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Packard Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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