The fisher Surname

fisher Name Meaning and 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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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fisher Family Facts

Distribution of fisher Families in the US in 1920

Number of fisher families

2308-4613

770-2307

1-769

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 3435 - Messages: 7931

Thread	Author	Replies
George Fisher	greg fisher	6
Descendants of Anthony Fisher-Genealogy Avaiable	Frederick L. Fisher	75
John Fisher, Bucks Co.,Pa 1700	jkross4	2
Marriage Certificate John Fisher - Mary Ann Plumbridge	DSThorne	0
Fisher's of Hampshire County Virginia then West Virginia	Darlene Jestus	22
FISHER RESEARCHERS LIST	BEVROOTS	32
David Orval McKee adopted by Fisher family	egirl82000	0
harold husband of lena	b2joandal	0
Fisher's in Massachusetts	Jennifer White	3
FISHER Ellen M and Herbert J	t42Moore	0

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