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slack Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Dutch: nickname for an idle person, from Middle Dutch slac, Middle English slack, ‘lazy’, ‘careless’.
  2. English: topographic name from northern Middle English slack ‘shallow valley’ (Old Norse slakki), or a habitational name from one of the places named with this word, for example near Stainland and near Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire.
  3. Scottish (Dumfriesshire): habitational name, maybe from Slake or Slack in Roberton, Roxburghshire (now part of Borders region).
  4. It may also be an Americanized spelling of Slovenian Slak, a nickname from slak ‘bindweed’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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slack Family Facts

Distribution of slack Families in the US in 1920
Number of slack families
 124-246
 42-123		 1-41
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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