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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a peddler or hawker, Middle English packeman.
  • English : occupational name for the servant (Middle English man) of someone called Pack.
  • German (Packmann, Päckmann), Dutch (Pakman), and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a packer (one who packed goods for shipping) or alternatively a rider or driver of pack animals, used for carrying comparatively light quantitites of goods at high speed, from a derivative of packen ‘to pack’.
  • German : variant of Pach 1, 2.

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