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Fisher

in Delaware

There are 732 people with the last name "Fisher" in Delaware.

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Ranking in Delaware

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Fisher 68
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  1. is 64th most common Long
  2. is 65th most common Bell
  3. is 66th most common Lopez
  4. is 67th most common Cannon
  5. is 68th most common Fisher
  6. is 69th most common Webb
  7. is 70th most common Morgan
  8. is 71st most common Hughes
  9. is 72nd most common Ross

Most Common First Names for Fisher

John, William, Robert, Barbara, David, Jeffrey, Michael, Donald, Edward

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.

Recent Searches for "Fisher" in Delaware

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John Fisher, DE (9 searches)
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