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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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