Popularity of the last name by country
Germany
- Baden-Württemberg (4,942)
- Bayern (1,253)
- Nordrhein-Westfalen (581)
- Hessen (356)
- Niedersachsen (341)
- Rheinland Pfalz (286)
- Berlin (249)
- Brandenburg (176)
- Saarland (106)
- Sachsen (94)
- Bremen (91)
- Hamburg (70)
- Mecklenburg Vorpommern (67)
- Schleswig Holstein (50)
- Sachsen Anhalt (23)
- Thuringen (16)
All countries
- United Kingdom (432,823)
- United States (289,754)
- Australia (21,893)
- New Zealand (21,507)
- Canada (12,117)
- Ireland (11,664)
- Germany (10,799)
- France (9,437)
- Unknown country (5,423)
- Austria (3,900)
- Denmark (2,022)
- Hungary (1,799)
- Switzerland (1,346)
- Netherlands (916)
- Italy (816)
- Belgium (745)
- Russian Federation (564)
- Colombia (444)
- India (434)
- Spain (416)
- Poland (407)
- Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (354)
- Mexico (307)
- South Africa (251)
- Sweden (243)
- Norway (221)
- Czech republic (201)
- China (192)
- Romania (174)
- Turkey (161)
- Egypt (150)
- Peru (146)
- Argentina (143)
- Indonesia (135)
- Lithuania (135)
- Greece (131)
- Lebanon (129)
- Malta (117)
- Israel (93)
- Jamaica (93)
Origine of last name
FISHER : 1: English: occupational name for a fisherman from Middle English fis(sc)her(e) ‘fisherman’ (Old English fiscere). In North America this surname has absorbed cognates from many other languages including German <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Fischer">Fischer</a> and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Fiser">Fiser</a>) Dutch <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Visser">Visser</a> Hungarian Halász (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Halasz">Halasz</a>) Italian <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Pescatore">Pescatore</a> Slovenian Ribič (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Ribic">Ribic</a>) and Croatian Ribić or <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Ribar">Ribar</a>.2: English: in a few cases possibly a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river from Middle English fis(sc)hwere fisshyar ‘fish weir’ (Old English fiscwer fiscgear) or a habitational name from a place so named such as Fisher in North Mundham Sussex.3: Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’ a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Braden">Braden</a>.4: Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a fisherman Yiddish fisher (from German Fischer).5: Americanized form (mistranslation into English) of French <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Poissant">Poissant</a> meaning ‘powerful strong vigorous’ but understood as poisson ‘fish’ and assimilated to the more frequent English name.6: Americanized form (translation into English) of French <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Poisson">Poisson</a> ‘fish’ and assimilated to the more frequent English name.7: Native American (Cheyenne): from a mistranslation into English of the Cheyenne personal name Noma'heškeso ‘Little Fish’ from a diminutive of noma'he ‘fish’.
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