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
Grammatical form

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

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.