Fitz
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from AFrjfe ‘son’; first attested Reginald le Fiz 1193 P (Wa)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɪts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fitz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 72K
- USUnited States1 in 86K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 345 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
3,846 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Patronym from the Rufname Vitus (lat. vita 'Leben'); with F/V-variation and nhd. Diphthongierung. 1153 Tokens.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Fitz is read(measured from records)
Fitz is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English67%
from AFrjfe ‘son’; first attested Reginald le Fiz 1193 P (Wa)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- Spanish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fitz in Spanish.
- German7.2%
Patronym from the Rufname Vitus (lat. vita 'Leben'); with F/V-variation and nhd. Diphthongierung. 1153 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
a surname from the Palatinate region of Germany
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Typ der Nebenkarte K. 89; 1153 Bearer; zeigt F/V-Variation im Anlaut.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
in den i95oer-Jahren in England auf gekommener männl. Vom., Bestandteil pa- tronymischer
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Fitz, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fitz 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,846 | 1 in 86K | 3.8K | Fitz | 345 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Fitz | 103 |
| BR Brazil | 1,102 | 1 in 192K | 1.1K | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 72K | listed | Fitz | 105 |
| AT Austria | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 4 | Fitz | 59 |
| IE Ireland | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Fitz | 38 |
| CH Switzerland | 126 | 1 in 67K | 126 | Fitz | 18 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Fitz | 9 |
3,846 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hans Fitzb. 1891DEGerman actor and screenwriter (1891-1972)
- Walter Fitzb. 1921DEGerman actor and composer (1921–1992)
- Gerd Fitzb. 1930DEGerman actor (1930-2015)
- Peter Fitzb. 1931DEGerman actor (1931–2013)
- Veronika Fitzb. 1936DEGerman actress (1936-2020)
- Michael Fitzb. 1958DEGerman actor
- Hendrikje Fitzb. 1961DEGerman actress (1961-2016)
- Florian Fitzb. 1967DEGerman actor
- Florian David Fitzb. 1974DEGerman actor, screenwriter, film director and singer
- Dominik Fitzb. 1999ATAustrian footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,567 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.7K | #8,612 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.6K | #8,343 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,483 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 126 | #9,223 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Fitz mean?
- In English, from AFrjfe ‘son’; first attested Reginald le Fiz 1193 P (Wa)
- Where does the name Fitz come from?
- Patronym from the Rufname Vitus (lat. vita 'Leben'); with F/V-variation and nhd. Diphthongierung. 1153 Tokens. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus.
- How do you pronounce Fitz?
- A machine transcription gives /fɪts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fitz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Fitz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fitz.
- How common is the name Fitz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,846 people named Fitz in 2010, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fitz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fitzThe 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, “Fitz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.