Last Name FLESHER

Summary/Contribute


Meaning The flesher, a butcher. To be carefully distinguished from Fletcher, although the two names have got mixed. A butcher is stills flesher in Scotland, and the 'flesh-market' isnot unknown in the North of England, where 'meat' abd 'flesh' have separate meanings.
Origin English, Jewish, Irish

Rank 9,901 (2000 US census) 9,575 (1990 US census)
Count 3,006 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 95.34%, or 2866 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 0.86%, or 26 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.47%, or 14 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.47%, or 14 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.16%, or 35 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.7%, or 51 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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