Last name origins & meanings:
- Dutch: perhaps an altered form of Dutch Kaak, from
Middle Dutch cake ‘jaw’ or ‘cheek’, hence a descriptive
nickname alluding to some facial peculiarity.
- Dutch: from Dutch
kaag (earlier kaack), the same word as English
keg. A bierkaacker was someone who used a beer hoist to
carry and deliver kegs of beer. There was a Marten Hendricksz de
Bierkaacker at Beverwijck (Albany) in the 17th century.
- North German: occupational name for a cook, from Kaack(er),
Low German equivalent of German Koch.
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