Frequency: (116)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Possibly an Anglicized or Americanized form of German and Jewish Sachs.
2. Possibly a variant of or patronymic from English Sock, from an Old English personal name Socca, or a metonymic occupational name for a maker of slippers, from Middle English sock ‘light shoe’, ‘slipper’ (Old English socc).
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
