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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly an Anglicized or Americanized form of German and Jewish Sachs.
  • Possibly a variant of or patronymic from English Sock, from an Old English personal name Socca, or a metonymic occupational name for a maker of slippers, from Middle English sock ‘light shoe’, ‘slipper’ (Old English socc).

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