Schaack Family History
Schaack Name Meaning
German: from a shortened form of the medieval personal name Godschack (see Gottschalk ). Compare Shack . Luxembourgish: from an altered form of the French personal name Jacques or perhaps a cognate of 1 above. Dutch: variant archaic or Americanized of Schaak a cognate of 1 above. In some cases possibly also a shortened form of Van Schaack a surname of Dutch origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022