Polack Family Crest & Name History

Genealogists group Polack with Polak. Its meaning, shared with Polak, is “A Pole”. Before spelling was fixed, Polak was also written Polack. The same family of names includes Pollack, Poliak and Polyak.

Polack ranked 35,057 in the 2010 US Census, with 643 people answering to the name. Between 1891 and 2000, 154 babies born in France were registered as Polack, with the most births in 1981–1990. Births ran at 7 in 1891–1900 and 13 in 1991–2000. Polack sounds close to Polk and Pollock, so it can help to search both.

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