Fleischer

Locally spelled פליישר in IL Israel, RO Romania, PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Fleischer is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, butcher (male or of unspecified gender)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In German, Zu mhd. vleischer, Kürzung von mhd. vleisch(h)ouwer; Berufsname 'Fleischer/Metzger', teils auch 'Henker, Schinder'. 6569 Belege. Morphologisches Muster: Berufsname mit -er, verkürzt aus dem Vollwort.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

• In German, Berufsname: Fleischer, also Fleischverarbeiter/Metzger; als Vergleichsform in Nachbarländern genannt.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

• In German, Berufsname zu Fleisch; -er-Form des Fleischmann-Typs. 6569 Träger.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

• In German, Berufsname: Fleischhauer/Metzger; belegt mit 6643 Trägern.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Max Fleischerb. 1883USAmerican animator, inventor, film director and producer (1883-1972)
• Carl Gustav Fleischerb. 1883NONorwegian general (1883–1942)
• Dave Fleischerb. 1894USAmerican animation film director and film producer (1894-1979)
• Tilly Fleischerb. 1911DEGerman javelin thrower (1911–2005)
• Richard Fleischerb. 1916USAmerican film director (1916–2006)
• Jacob Talmonb. 1916PLnot in their usual namehistorian of Modern Age, political scientist, pedagogue, penman, university teacher (1916-1980)
• Charles Fleischerb. 1950USAmerican stand-up comedian, actor, writer and musician (born 1950)
• Ari Fleischerb. 1960USAmerican media consultant (born 1960)
• Ruben Fleischerb. 1974USAmerican film director
• Dean Fleischer Campb. 1982USAmerican director and filmmaker

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Fleischer mean, and where does it come from?

from the occupation of butcher/meat seller Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.

How do you pronounce Fleischer?

A machine transcription gives /flajʃɚ/ (IPA) for English.

In which country does Fleischer have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Fleischer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fleischer.

Where is Fleischer most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fleischer is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 201 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Fleischer?

In the United States, the national register counted 3,981 people named Fleischer in 2010, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.