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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Fischmann) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a fish seller, from Middle High German visch ‘fish’ (modern German Fisch, Yiddish fish) + Middle High German and Yiddish man ‘man’ (modern German Mann).

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