Last Name FISH

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Nickname: The fish.

Origin	English, Jewish, Russian, French, Native American, Irish, South african, Hungarian

Rank	1,314 (2000 US census)	1,377 (1990 US census)

Count	24,612 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

93.45%, or 23000 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
1.75%, or 431 total occurrences, as black,
0.5%, or 123 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.69%, or 416 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.3%, or 320 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.31%, or 322 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Ukrainian middle names

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Belarus middle names

Belarus middle names form the same way as Russian ones, in part due to general common history of the Russian and Belarus nationalities, and in part due to very close integration of all nationalities during the Soviet Union times. Follow the