Last Name SLACK

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Meaning Local: At the Slack of Slagg, from residence thereby, a place where the road becomes less steep, a gap in the hills (slacken, to ease off). Probably both 'slack' and 'slag' refer to that point of the hiltop where the stones and earth began to dribble down the slope.
Local: A valley, or small shallow dell.
Origin English, Dutch, Irish, Belgian

Rank 2,579 (2000 US census) 3,139 (1990 US census)
Count 12,893 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 85.61%, or 11038 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 10.95%, or 1412 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.46%, or 59 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.33%, or 43 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.14%, or 147 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.51%, or 195 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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