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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : probably from Middle English flack, flak ‘turf’, ‘sod’ (as found in the place name Flatmoor, in Cambridgeshire), and hence perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a turf cutter.
  • North German : topographic name probably derived from a lost word denoting stagnant water.

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