Packard Family History
Packard Name Meaning
English: from Middle English pa(c)k ‘pack’, ‘bundle’ + the Anglo-Norman French pejorative suffix -ard, hence a derogatory occupational name for a peddler.English: pejorative derivative of the Middle English personal name Pack.English: from a Norman personal name, Pachard, Baghard, composed of the Germanic elements pac, bag ‘fight’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Packert, Päckert, from Germanic personal names formed with a word meaning ‘battle’ or ‘to fight’; or a variant of Packer 2 (with excrescent -t).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
392,391
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Packard
Name Distribution of Packard Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Packard families
 74 - 145  25 - 73 |
 1 - 24  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Packard last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Packard census records
You can see how Packard families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
View all Packard census records
>
Packard Family Origin
Packard Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Packard emigration records
You can find out when most of the Packard families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
View all Packard emigration records >
from the New York Passenger Lists
Packard Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Packard census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Packard ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
View all Packard census records >
Military Service by Packard
Message Board about Packard
298 Threads, 33
Messages
Browse message boards to get helpful hints from other people researching the name
Packard.
Threads: 298 - Messages: 33
Start a FREE Packard family tree
Starting a family tree at Ancestry is not only the easiest way to organise, preserve
and share your family history, it's also a direct link to missing information about
your roots.
About Ancestry.co.uk
The world's largest family history resource
- Explore over 7 billion genealogical records
- Search 26 million family trees
- Create your FREE family tree
- Follow leaf Hints to follow more ancestors
×