as a Last Name
- 7,652
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Sachs
Meaning & Origins
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): regional name from (Lower) Saxony, German (Nieder-)Sachsen in northern Germany. The region is called after the Germanic tribe which settled there in Roman times and was named from a Germanic word which is preserved in Old Saxon, Old High German sahs ‘knife’, ‘sword’. (The area in central Germany named Sachsen was named after the line of princes who had the title to the northern territories in 1422.)
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,652
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maryland
- has the most people named Sachs per capita
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