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fisk Name Meaning and History

English (East Anglia): metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a fish in some way, from Old Norse fiskr ‘fish’ (cognate with Old English fisc).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The fisk name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the fisk family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of fisk Families in the US in 1920
Number of fisk families
 140-278
 47-139		 1-46
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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