Fischer

Fischer is the 460th most common surname in the United States, shared by 70,511 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,239.

By the numbers

People: 70,511
Rank: 460th
How common: 1 in 4,239
Per 100,000: 23.6

Where the name comes from

Origin German, from an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Fischer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Fischer

Bobby Fischer (1943–2008)American chess player
Hermann Emil Fischer (1852–1919)German chemist
Heinz Fischer (born 1938)Austrian politician (SPÖ), 8th president of Austria
Hans Fischer (1881–1945)German chemist
Joschka Fischer (born 1948)German politician
Ernst Otto Fischer (1918–2007)German chemist
Edmond H. Fischer (1920–2021)American biochemist
Helene Fischer (born 1984)German singer

People named Fischer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Fischer

Also a first name

Fischer has been given to 2,177 American babies as a first name since 1993, peaking in 2015. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.