Fister Family Name and Heraldry

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

Family name meaning

Fister is a familiar spelling of the German name Pfister. Taken at its root, Fister points to “Baker”.

Records show Fister as one of the forms Pfister took over time. The same family of names includes Pfisterer. In the 2010 US Census, 1,292 Americans gave Fister as their last name (rank 20,529). 248 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Fister name at birth. There were 14 such births in the 1890s and 26 in the 1990s.

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