Given name & surname

Bisher

Bisher is a surname from German.

Original GermanBüscher

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Bisher comes from German.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In English usage, Bisher as a surname developed from Büscher.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Bisher through the years

Babies since 1880
12
12 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2005
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
012342025Highest share 20050.0
Bisher in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2005–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 587 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Bisher’s family of names

In English usage, Bisher as a surname developed from the German form Büscher.

Walk Bisher’s family in the name graph

BisherBüscher

The ring: across languages.

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Across languages 1

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