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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name from Middle High German sacman ‘baggage servant’, one who was in charge of transporting and looking after a knight’s baggage and supplies on campaign, or alternatively a nickname from the same word in the later sense ‘plunderer’.

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