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The fitz Surname

fitz Name Meaning and History

  1. English: generally said to be from Anglo-Norman French fi(t)z ‘son’, used originally to distinguish a son from a father bearing the same personal name.
  2. It could also be a habitational name from a place in Shropshire called Fitz, recorded in 1194 as Fittesho, from an Old English personal name, Fitt, + hoh ‘hill spur’.
  3. In one family at least, it is an altered form of English Fitch.
  4. German: unexplained. Possibly from a vernacular pet form of the personal name Vincent.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The fitz name in History

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Distribution of fitz Families in the US in 1920
Number of fitz families
 50-98
 17-49		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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