Mack Family History

Scottish and English: from the Old Norse personal name Makkr representing an Old Irish name Mac ‘son’ Latinized as Maccus. It was once thought that Maccus was a form of Magnus but this is not so. Scottish and Irish: possibly from a shortened form of any of the many Scottish and Irish surnames beginning with Mac- ‘son’ a nickname that occasionally became encoded as a nickname and thence perhaps as a genuine surname but the evidence for this is thin. North German and Dutch: from the ancient Germanic personal name Macco Makko a pet form of a compound name with the first element māg- ‘kinsman’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). In North America this surname is also an altered form of the much more common Dutch variant Mak . Germanized or Americanized form of Hungarian Mák Polish Ukrainian Slovak Slovenian or Croatian Mak and a variant of the same Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname. Americanized form of the Chinese surname 麥 see Mai

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022