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Fisher

in Iowa

There are 2,714 people with the last name "Fisher" in Iowa.

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Ranking in Iowa

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Fisher 49
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  1. is 45th most common Lewis
  2. is 46th most common Lee
  3. is 47th most common Van
  4. is 48th most common Murphy
  5. is 49th most common Fisher
  6. is 50th most common Phillips
  7. is 51st most common Evans
  8. is 52nd most common Reed
  9. is 53rd most common Green

Most Common First Names for Fisher

Robert, James, John, Michael, David, Mary, William, Mark, Gary, 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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