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Surname Etymology and Meaning of SACK

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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, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a maker of sacks or bags, from Old English sacc, Middle High German sack, German Sack ‘sack’. Bahlow also suggests someone who carried sacks.
2. German: topographic from Middle High German sack ‘sack’, ‘end of a valley or area of cultivation’.
3. Dutch: from a reduced form of the personal name Zacharias.
4. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from an acronym of the Hebrew phrase Zera Keshodim ‘Seed of the Holy’ (referring to martyred ancestors), or from a short form of the personal name Isaac.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)