Fish

See also: fish, The Fish, and FISH

English

Etymology

From fish, a metonymic occupational surname for a fish seller or a nickname for someone who resembled a fish. It could also be an Americanized spelling of German Fisch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃ
• Homophone: fish

Proper noun

Fish (plural Fishes)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Fish is the 1425^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 24924 individuals. Fish is most common among Hispanic/Latino (91.87%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fish”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 578.