Zak
[z忙k]Meaning
short form of Zachary
Background Story
Zak is a short form of Zachary, with the variants Zac, Zach and Zack. It is also a surname, related to the Polish 呕ak and the Czech 沤谩k; in Jewish use it can be a variant of the German surname Sachs, from the Hebrew Yitzchak, or an acronym of the Hebrew Zera Kodesh, literally "holy seed". The same spelling, 沤ak, was borrowed into Slovene from the English Zack.
Temperament
Variations
zack, zach
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