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Fisher

in Indiana

There are 5,525 people with the last name "Fisher" in Indiana.

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Ranking in Indiana

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Fisher 51
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  1. is 47th most common Cooper
  2. is 48th most common Edwards
  3. is 49th most common Bailey
  4. is 50th most common Howard
  5. is 51st most common Fisher
  6. is 52nd most common Bennett
  7. is 53rd most common Long
  8. is 54th most common Richardson
  9. is 55th most common Parker

Most Common First Names for Fisher

James, Robert, Michael, John, David, William, Donald, Mark, Thomas, 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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