Irish: Anglo-Norman French patronymic from fi(t)z ‘son’ +
Roy in one or other of its senses. It is usually taken to imply
that the original bearer was a bastard son of the king, though ‘son of
Ruadh’ (a Gaelic nickname meaning ‘red’) is also a possible
interpretation.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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