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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English fische, fish ‘fish’, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a fish.
  • Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Fisch.

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