as a Last Name
- 1,723
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Poisson
Meaning & Origins
French: from poisson ‘fish’, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a fish. In North America this name is sometimes translated as Fisher.
| 14,818th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,723
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Hampshire
- has the most people named Poisson per capita
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