Clack Family History
Clack Name Meaning
English:: from the Old English personal name Clacc or its Old Norse (Danish) cognate Klak. As a personal name this is from a word meaning ‘lump’ and may have been used as a nickname for a large or thickset man. possibly sometimes from a derivative of Middle English clakken ‘to rattle clatter’ denoting a chatterer alternatively perhaps a miller from the clack or clatter of his mill or a bellringer.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022