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Fisher

in Maryland

There are 4,116 people with the last name "Fisher" in Maryland.

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Ranking in Maryland

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Fisher 72
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  1. is 68th most common James
  2. is 69th most common Bennett
  3. is 70th most common Long
  4. is 71st most common Marshall
  5. is 72nd most common Fisher
  6. is 73rd most common Harrison
  7. is 74th most common Watson
  8. is 75th most common Wood
  9. is 76th most common Reed

Most Common First Names for Fisher

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

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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