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Fisher

in Washington

There are 4,098 people with the last name "Fisher" in Washington.

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Ranking in Washington

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Fisher 77
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  1. is 73rd most common Cooper
  2. is 74th most common Collins
  3. is 75th most common Ward
  4. is 76th most common Cox
  5. is 77th most common Fisher
  6. is 78th most common Bell
  7. is 79th most common Richardson
  8. is 80th most common Perez
  9. is 81st most common Howard

Most Common First Names for Fisher

Robert, David, James, John, William, Donald, Richard, Michael, Paul, Steven

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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