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Fisher

in Tennessee

There are 3,839 people with the last name "Fisher" in Tennessee.

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Ranking in Tennessee

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Fisher 143
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  1. is 139th most common Dixon
  2. is 140th most common Howell
  3. is 141st most common Burns
  4. is 142nd most common Fox
  5. is 143rd most common Fisher
  6. is 144th most common Hudson
  7. is 145th most common Kelley
  8. is 146th most common Ferguson
  9. is 147th most common Knight

Most Common First Names for Fisher

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