Family name origins & meanings
- Southern Italian and Greek : occupational name for a maker or seller of sacks, from medieval Greek sakkos ‘sack’ + the occupational ending -as.
- Southern Italian and Greek : occupational name from saccà ‘water carrier’, from Arabic saqqā ‘water carrier’, Turkish saka.
- Southern Italian and Greek : nickname for a person thought to resemble a pelican, by reason of the ‘sack’ or pouch (Greek sakkos) underneath its bill.