Fritzsche
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Apokope and e-insertion; plate shows vowel loss and inserted e in Fritzsche/Fritsch and related forms
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Fritzsche is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- ESSpain
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Apokope and e-insertion; plate shows vowel loss and inserted e in Fritzsche/Fritsch and related forms.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Fritzsche is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronymischer Familienname aus ahd. fridu, altsächs. frithu 'Friede'; Nebenformen der Friedrich-Gruppe.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Kurzform zu Friedrich (< ahd. fridu, as. frithu ‚Friede‘); zeigt e-Antritt/-Apokope bei Fritzsche/Fritsche. 7864 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Zu Fritz (Kurzform von Friedrich); Karte zeigt den Wechsel mit Antritt/Apokope von -e. 7864 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)- Gottfried Fritzscheb. 1578DEGerman organ builder (1578-1638)
- Christian Friedrich Fritzscheb. 1776DEGerman theologian (1776-1850)
- Gotthard Daniel Fritzscheb. 1797DELutheran pastor (1797-1863)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Fritzscheb. 1825DEGerman political activist (1825-1905)
- Vladimir Friceb. 1870RUnot in their usual namesoviet literary and art scholar (1870–1929)
- Hans Fritzscheb. 1900DEGerman Nazi official (1900-1953); International Military Tribunal defendant
- Hellmut Fritzscheb. 1927USAmerican physicist (1927–2018)
- Joachim Fritscheb. 1951DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer (born 1951)
- Rainer Fritzscheb. 1978DEGerman actor and voice actor
- Claudia Fritzscheb. 1981DEGerman actress
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Fritzsche mean, and where does it come from?
- Apokope and e-insertion; plate shows vowel loss and inserted e in Fritzsche/Fritsch and related forms. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- In which country does Fritzsche have the most bearers?
- Fritzsche is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fritzscheThe 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
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fritzsche”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.