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Fisher

in Wisconsin

There are 2,921 people with the last name "Fisher" in Wisconsin.

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Ranking in Wisconsin

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Fisher 76
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  1. is 72nd most common Evans
  2. is 73rd most common Rogers
  3. is 74th most common Jacobson
  4. is 75th most common Reed
  5. is 76th most common Fisher
  6. is 77th most common Schaefer
  7. is 78th most common Christensen
  8. is 79th most common Yang
  9. is 80th most common Ward

Most Common First Names for Fisher

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

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 Wisconsin

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Robert Fisher, WI (7 searches)
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