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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place named Fischbach, or a topographic name for someone living by a stream (Middle High German bach) noted for its fish (Middle High German visch).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Fisch ‘fish’ + Bach ‘stream’.

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