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Fisher

in Kentucky

There are 1,844 people with the last name "Fisher" in Kentucky.

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Ranking in Kentucky

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Fisher 259
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  1. is 255th most common Frazier
  2. is 256th most common Patrick
  3. is 257th most common Kelley
  4. is 258th most common Hubbard
  5. is 259th most common Fisher
  6. is 260th most common York
  7. is 261st most common Estes
  8. is 262nd most common Powers
  9. is 263rd most common Freeman

Most Common First Names for Fisher

James, John, Robert, David, Michael, William, Charles, Mary, Karen, Kenneth

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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