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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : of undetermined, possibly Slavic, origin. It could also be an Americanized spelling of French Jacot or a short form of any of the various surnames beginning with the element Jacko- (see below), but the concentration of the name in OH, PA, and TX is suggestive of a German origin.

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