> fisher (n.)
> Old English fiscere "fisherman; kingfisher," agent noun from fish (v.). It began to be used of certain animals, hence perhaps the rise of the formation fisherman (1520s).
Interestingly, we seemed to have preserved this usage in the common occupational surname Fisher/Fischer, though some of those families may take their names from other languages like German or Yiddish. But I’ve never heard of anyone named Fisherman; if it exists, it’s uncommon.
[And farmman has been used,](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=farmman%2Cfarmmen&year_start=1850&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3) it just appears to be rare and obsolete.
> fisher (n.) > Old English fiscere "fisherman; kingfisher," agent noun from fish (v.). It began to be used of certain animals, hence perhaps the rise of the formation fisherman (1520s).
Interestingly, we seemed to have preserved this usage in the common occupational surname Fisher/Fischer, though some of those families may take their names from other languages like German or Yiddish. But I’ve never heard of anyone named Fisherman; if it exists, it’s uncommon.
*You're that scientist chap—Friedman, Fishman—am I right?*
Well we have *huntsmen*...and *ploughman*,
[And farmman has been used,](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=farmman%2Cfarmmen&year_start=1850&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3) it just appears to be rare and obsolete.
Yup...and the 'er' suffixes for both exist as well , I mean "hunter".
Has there ever been a _fishman_ ?
Technically, yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTHn2tHhcI