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Fisher

in the US

There are 162,651 people with the last name "Fisher" in the United States.

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Fisher 90
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  1. is 86th most common Powell
  2. is 87th most common Sanders
  3. is 88th most common Perry
  4. is 89th most common Sullivan
  5. is 90th most common Fisher
  6. is 91st most common Butler
  7. is 92nd most common Barnes
  8. is 93rd most common Henderson
  9. is 94th most common Jenkins

Most Common First Names for Fisher

Robert, John, James, David, William, Michael, Richard, Charles, Thomas, 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 the US

Since June 2009
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Robert Fisher (983 searches)
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