Sachs is a German surname, meaning "man from
Saxony". Sachs is a common surname among
Ashkenazi Jews from Saxony, in the United States sometimes adopted in the variant
Zaks, supposedly in reference to the Hebrew phrase Zera Kodesh Shemo (ZaKS), literally "his name is Holy Seed," a quotation from Isaiah 6:13.[1]
Notable people with the surname Sachs include:
Adriana Sachs (born 1993), Argentine professional footballer
Albie Sachs (born 1935), South African Constitutional Court Justice
^Elsdon Coles Smith, Dictionary of American Family Names (1956)
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Sachs is a German surname, meaning "man from
Saxony". Sachs is a common surname among
Ashkenazi Jews from Saxony, in the United States sometimes adopted in the variant
Zaks, supposedly in reference to the Hebrew phrase Zera Kodesh Shemo (ZaKS), literally "his name is Holy Seed," a quotation from Isaiah 6:13.[1]
Notable people with the surname Sachs include:
Adriana Sachs (born 1993), Argentine professional footballer
Albie Sachs (born 1935), South African Constitutional Court Justice
^Elsdon Coles Smith, Dictionary of American Family Names (1956)
Surname list
This page lists people with the
surnameSachs. If an
internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that
link by adding the person's
given name(s) to the link.