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Fisher

in Mississippi

There are 1,263 people with the last name "Fisher" in Mississippi.

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Ranking in Mississippi

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Fisher 249
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  1. is 245th most common Moody
  2. is 246th most common Hampton
  3. is 247th most common Dickerson
  4. is 248th most common Hopkins
  5. is 249th most common Fisher
  6. is 250th most common Chambers
  7. is 251st most common Bush
  8. is 252nd most common Logan
  9. is 253rd most common Rice

Most Common First Names for Fisher

James, Robert, Mary, Charles, William, Thomas, David, Mark, Barbara, John

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.

Recent Searches for "Fisher" in Mississippi

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