Entry № 3373 · English origin

Fitz Fitz — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FITS /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Son of (Scandal's Fitzgerald Grant; modern unisex)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "son of (scandal's fitzgerald grant; modern unisex)".

Fitz is from the Anglo-Norman fitz (son of) — a prefix in Norman surnames. Fitzgerald "Fitz" Grant III — male character on ABC's Scandal (2012-2018), played by Tony Goldwyn; the fictional Republican US President; Scandal was the first network drama to feature an African American female lead (Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope) in nearly 40 years; created by Shonda Rhimes; ran for 7 seasons across 124 episodes. F. Fitz Fitzgerald — modern American figure.

Son of. F.

The name in its native script.

Fitz
Transliteration
Fitz
Pronunciation
/ fɪts /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Fitz stands.

Fitz does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Fitzs before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Fitzgerald Grant
ABC's Scandal.
2012

Names connected to Fitz.

The number behind Fitz.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fitz reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.