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Sacks Ranking

In the United States, the name Sacks is the 10,306th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1


United States Sacks migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Sacks Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
  • Bastiaan Sacks, who arrived in New York in 1709 2
Sacks Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • John Sacks, who arrived in Somerset County, Pennsylvania in 1843 2
  • August Sacks, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1857 2
  • Frederick Earnest Sacks, who landed in Colorado in 1882 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Sacks (post 1700) +

  • Marty Sacks, American Republican politician, Candidate for Florida State House of Representatives 86th District, 1978 3
  • Leon Sacks (1902-1972), American Democratic Party politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 1st District, 1937-43 3
  • Joel D. Sacks, American politician, U.S. Attorney for Virgin Islands, 1971-73 3
  • George H. Sacks, American Democratic Party politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1956 3
  • Eddie Sacks, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, 2008 3
  • Alexander Sacks, American Republican politician, Candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 23rd District, 1968 3
  • Jonathan Henry Sacks (1948-2020), Baron Sacks, a British Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, author, and politician
  • Oliver Wolf Sacks CBE, FRCP (1933-2015), British neurologist, naturalist and author
  • Oliver Wolf Sacks CBE (1933-2015), English neurologist and author, perhaps best known for his 1973 book Awakenings which was adapted into the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name in 1990 starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 26) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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