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Fisher

in Georgia

There are 3,339 people with the last name "Fisher" in Georgia.

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Ranking in Georgia

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Fisher 252
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  1. is 248th most common Johnston
  2. is 249th most common George
  3. is 250th most common Montgomery
  4. is 251st most common Walton
  5. is 252nd most common Fisher
  6. is 253rd most common Holt
  7. is 254th most common Chandler
  8. is 255th most common Rhodes
  9. is 256th most common Burton

Most Common First Names for Fisher

James, Robert, Mary, William, David, Michael, John, Thomas, Charles, Richard

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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