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Fisher

in New Jersey

There are 3,936 people with the last name "Fisher" in New Jersey.

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Ranking in New Jersey

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Fisher 81
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  1. is 77th most common Stewart
  2. is 78th most common Edwards
  3. is 79th most common Parker
  4. is 80th most common Flores
  5. is 81st most common Fisher
  6. is 82nd most common Jimenez
  7. is 83rd most common Bell
  8. is 84th most common Ross
  9. is 85th most common James

Most Common First Names for Fisher

Robert, John, William, James, David, Michael, Thomas, Joseph, Mary, 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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