Packman Family History

English: usually an occupational name for a peddler or hawker Middle English pake packe ‘pack bundle’ + man. English: sometimes an occupational name for the servant (Middle English man) of someone called Pack or Pake.

Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Pakman an occupational name for a packer from Yiddish pakn ‘to pack’ + man ‘man’ (compare 4 below).

Americanized form of German Packmann or Päckmann: occupational name for a packer (one who packed goods for shipping) or alternatively a rider or driver of pack animals used for carrying comparatively light quantities of goods at high speed from a derivative of German packen ‘to pack’.

Both original forms are very rare in Germany.