As a surname: Jack Name Meaning 1) Scottish and English: from a Middle English personal name, Jakke, from Old French Jacques, the usual French form of Latin Jacobus, which is the source of both Jacob and James. As a family name in Britain, this is almost exclusively Scottish. 2) English and Welsh: from the same personal name as 1, taken as a pet form of John.
3) German (also Jäck): from a short form of the personal name Jacob. 4) Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press.
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