Sackville

English

Etymology

From the Norman habitational surname, from the town of Sauqueville, in Normandy. The town in New Brunswick is named after British politician George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716 - 1785). The civil parish is named after the town.

Proper noun

Sackville (countable and uncountable, plural Sackvilles)

1. A surname from Norman.
2. A civil parish in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
3. A town in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada.
4. A suburb of Sydney, in the City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia, named after George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Sackville is the 142122^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 159 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sackville”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.