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Fisher

in Pennsylvania

There are 11,657 people with the last name "Fisher" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Fisher 27
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  1. is 23rd most common Robinson
  2. is 24th most common Baker
  3. is 25th most common Harris
  4. is 26th most common Campbell
  5. is 27th most common Fisher
  6. is 28th most common Adams
  7. is 29th most common Walker
  8. is 30th most common Scott
  9. is 31st most common Kelly

Most Common First Names for Fisher

Robert, John, David, William, James, Michael, Richard, Charles, Daniel, Joseph

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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