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Fisher

in Alabama

There are 1,780 people with the last name "Fisher" in Alabama.

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Ranking in Alabama

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Fisher 301
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  1. is 297th most common Peters
  2. is 298th most common Garcia
  3. is 299th most common Yarbrough
  4. is 300th most common Glass
  5. is 301st most common Fisher
  6. is 302nd most common Webster
  7. is 303rd most common Bowman
  8. is 304th most common Newman
  9. is 305th most common Richards

Most Common First Names for Fisher

John, William, James, David, Robert, Charles, Jennifer, Linda, Michael, Steven

Meaning & History

English: occupational name for a fisherman, Middle English fischer. The name has also been used in Ireland as a loose equivalent of Braden. As an American family name, this has absorbed cognates and names of similar meaning from many other European languages, including German Fischer, Dutch Visser, Hungarian Halász, Italian Pescatore, Polish Rybarz, etc.

In a few cases, the English name may in fact be a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from the Old English term fisc-gear ‘fish weir’.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a fisherman, Yiddish fisher, German Fischer.

Irish: translation of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán ’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden.

Mistranslation of French Poissant, meaning ‘powerful’, but understood as poisson ‘fish’ (see Poisson), and assimilated to the more frequent English name.

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