Frits
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/frɪts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Frits is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From German Fritz, diminutive of Friedrich (“Frederick”).
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 7.5K
- SESweden1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
6,390 people
Reference-verified
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From German Fritz, diminutive of Friedrich (“Frederick”).
Sources 2
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Frits counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 6,390 | 1 in 2.7K | 6.4K | Frits | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 783 | 1 in 7.5K | 783 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 202 | 1 in 51K | 202 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 135 | 1 in 2.5M | 236 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 20 | 1 in 2.5M | 20 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 7 | 1 in 796K | 62 | — | — |
6,390 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Frits is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, masculine plural of frit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Frits Holmb. 1881DKDanish explorer and linguist (1881-1930)
- Frits Van den Bergheb. 1883BEpainter (1883-1939)
- Gustav Möllerb. 1884SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician (1884–1970)
- Frits Zernikeb. 1888NLDutch physicist (1888–1966)
- Frits Clausenb. 1893DKDanish national socialist politician (1893-1947)
- Frits Warmolt Wentb. 1903NLDutch botanist (1903-1990)
- Frits Philipsb. 1905NLDutch entrepreneur (1905–2005)
- Frits Staalb. 1930NLDutch indologist (1930–2012)
- Holger Bech Nielsenb. 1941DKnot in their usual nameDanish theoretical physicist and professor emeritus
- Frits Kortlandtb. 1946NLlinguist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 6.4K | #320 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 4.2K | #826 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 783 | #384 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 246 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 227 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 213 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 202 | #5,196 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 201 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 184 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 173 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 163 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 154 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Frits mean, and where does it come from?
- From German Fritz, diminutive of Friedrich (“Frederick”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Frits?
- A machine transcription gives /frɪts/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Frits a male or female name?
- Frits is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Frits?
- In the etymology graph, Fred, Frederick and Freddy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Frits have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 6.4 thousand people named Frits, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frits.
- Where is Frits most common?
- Frits is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Frits?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6,390 people named Frits, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Frits?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fritsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Frits”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.