Fisher

Fisher is the 115th most common surname in the United States, shared by 206,799 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,445.

By the numbers

People: 206,799
Rank: 115th
How common: 1 in 1,445
Per 100,000: 69.2

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.1%
Black, not Hispanic 11.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Fisher

Carrie Fisher (1956–2016)American actress, writer and screenwriter
Ronald Fisher (1890–1962)British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist
Isla Fisher (born 1976)Australian actress and author
Andrew Fisher (1862–1928)Australian politician, fifth Prime Minister of Australia
Irving Fisher (1867–1947)American economist and statistician
John Fisher (1469–1535)English Roman Catholic cardinal and saint (c. 1469–1535)
Anna Lee Fisher (born 1949)American astronaut
Frances Fisher (born 1952)American actress

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

Surnames like Fisher

Also a first name

Fisher has been given to 6,646 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 2025. 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.