Vissers Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Arms linked to Visser and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

What Vissers means

Not every Vissers is related, but the name itself grew out of Visser. Taken at its root, Vissers points to “Fisherman”.

The extra ending in Vissers is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Visser's family. Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms. Related forms: Visscher, Vissering and Vischer. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Vissers with 370 bearers, at rank 55,505.

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