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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname originating as an occupation or transferred from the nickname [in turn from Old Norse]. · An unincorporated community in Richland Township, Adair County, Iowa. · A minor city in Butler County, Missouri. · An unincorporated community in the town of Utica, Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
English occupational surname for a fisherman or fish seller, or a cognominal surname for someone thought to resemble a fish, from Old Norse fiskr (cognate with Old English fisc), from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz.
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