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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : from a reduced form of the personal name Isaak (see Isaac).
  • Polish and Hungarian (Szák) : from Polish sak, Hungarian szák, ‘fishing net’, ‘sack’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of nets or sacks.
  • Dutch : variant of Zack, a short form of the personal name Zacharias or Isaak.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Sack.

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