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