Sack Family History
Sack Name Meaning
German Flemish Dutch and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name either for a maker of sacks or bags or for someone who carried sacks from Middle High German sack Middle Dutch sack sac ‘sack’. German: nickname for a plump person from Middle High German sac ‘bag belly’. German: topographic name from Middle High German sack ‘sack end of a valley or area of cultivation’. Dutch: from a variant of Zack a short form of the personal name Zacharias or Isaak (see Isaac ). Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): acronymic surname from the first letters of the Hebrew phrase Zera Keshodim ‘Seed of the Holy’ (referring to martyred ancestors) or from a short form of the personal name Isaac. Compare Zak .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022