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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian and Greek : occupational name for a maker or seller of sacks, from medieval Greek sakkos ‘sack’ + the occupational ending -as.
  • Southern Italian and Greek : occupational name from saccà ‘water carrier’, from Arabic saqqā ‘water carrier’, Turkish saka.
  • Southern Italian and Greek : nickname for a person thought to resemble a pelican, by reason of the ‘sack’ or pouch (Greek sakkos) underneath its bill.

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