Fisher Family Members
Page added 4 August 2022.
Meaning of… (See https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname):
FISHER:
FISHER family pages done are:
FISHER:
- 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 Fischer and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see Fiser), Dutch Visser, Hungarian Halász (see Halasz), Italian Pescatore, Slovenian Ribič (see Ribic), and Croatian Ribić or Ribar.
- 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.
- Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a fisherman, Yiddish fisher (from German Fischer).
- Americanized form (mistranslation into English) of French Poissant, meaning ‘powerful, strong, vigorous’, but understood as poisson ‘fish’, and assimilated to the more frequent English name.
- Americanized form (translation into English) of French Poisson ‘fish’, and assimilated to the more frequent English name.
- Native American (Cheyenne): from a mistranslation into English of the Cheyenne personal name Noma'heškeso ‘Little Fish’, from a diminutive of noma'he ‘fish’.
- History: Some of the American bearers of the surname Fisher are descendants of either Jacques Poissant dit La Saline from France or Jean Poisson from France.
FISHER family pages done are:
- SIMMONS, Lillian Goldsmith (m. FISHER)
- FISHER, Samuel Henry (*)