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Fisher

in Michigan

There are 6,395 people with the last name "Fisher" in Michigan.

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Ranking in Michigan

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Fisher 63
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  1. is 59th most common Brooks
  2. is 60th most common Kelly
  3. is 61st most common Foster
  4. is 62nd most common Richardson
  5. is 63rd most common Fisher
  6. is 64th most common Ward
  7. is 65th most common Morgan
  8. is 66th most common Russell
  9. is 67th most common Perry

Most Common First Names for Fisher

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

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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