Fisher Family History
Fisher Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Fisher Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fisher families
 2,308 - 4,613  770 - 2,307 |
 1 - 769  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fisher families
|
2,468 - 4,933 823 - 2,467 |
1 - 822 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fisher families
|
494 - 986 165 - 493 |
1 - 164 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Fisher Family Origin
Fisher Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Fisher
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Fisher Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Fisher census records
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