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Surname Etymology and Meaning of PACKMAN

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Name meanings and etymologies are often disputed. The information here is compiled from freely available sources, and no claims whatsoever are made for accuracy, either historical or etymological.

1. English: occupational name for a peddler or hawker, Middle English packeman.
2. English: occupational name for the servant (Middle English man) of someone called Pack.
3. 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’.
4. German: variant of Pach 1, 2.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)