Entry № 3370 · English origin

Fisher Fisher — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FISH-er /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Fisherman (Carrie Fisher; modern unisex)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "fisherman (carrie fisher; modern unisex)".

Fisher is from the Old English fiscere (fisherman) — an occupational surname. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). Fisher-Price — major American toy manufacturer (founded 1930).

Fisherman (Carrie Fisher; modern unisex) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Fisher
Transliteration
Fisher
Pronunciation
/ ˈfɪʃ.ər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Fisher stands.

Fisher does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Fishers before her.

Real people
Carrie Fisher
American Princess Leia actress.
1956 – 2016
Bobby Fischer
American World Chess Champion.
1943 – 2008
In fiction
Fisher King
Arthurian legend; Eliot's Waste Land.
1922

Names connected to Fisher.

The number behind Fisher.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fisher reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.