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Fisher

in Vermont

There are 559 people with the last name "Fisher" in Vermont.

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Ranking in Vermont

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Fisher 70
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  1. is 66th most common Perkins
  2. is 67th most common Harrington
  3. is 68th most common Pratt
  4. is 69th most common Turner
  5. is 70th most common Fisher
  6. is 71st most common Foster
  7. is 72nd most common Sargent
  8. is 73rd most common Howard
  9. is 74th most common Kelley

Most Common First Names for Fisher

David, Robert, Richard, William, John, Patricia, Kenneth, 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.

Recent Searches for "Fisher" in Vermont

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David Fisher, VT (9 searches)
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