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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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’.

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