Origin and popularity of the name FITZ

Origin

Fitz : 1: English: from Anglo-Norman French fi(t)z ‘son’ (from Latin filius) used originally to distinguish a son from a father bearing the same personal name and then conventionalized as a hereditary surname or short for a surname of which fiz ‘son’ was the first element for example Fitzhenry and Fitzroy.2: Altered form of English Fitch.3: German: from a vernacular pet form of the personal name Vinzenz (see Vincent) or Vitus (see Vito compare Veit). Compare also Fietz.4: Americanized or Germanized form of Croatian and Slovenian Fic: from the old personal name Fic of German origin (see 3 above).

Draycott : from any of the places named Draycott (Derbys Oxon Worcs Somerset) Draycott in the Clay Draycott in the Moors (Staffs) Draycote (Worcs) Draycott Moor (Berks) Draycot Cerne Draycot Fitz Payne or Draycot Foliatt (Wilts).

Fiddy : perhaps from an oath Anglo-Norman French (par le) fitz deu ‘(by the) son of God’.

Filson : 1: English: patronymic from Fill + -son ‘son of Fill’.2: Irish: from Mac Philib a patronymic from the Greek personal name Philippos Gaelicized as Pilib or Filib and has been in use in Ireland since the Early-Christian period. Bearers of the Norman patronymic Fitz Philip were also Gaelicized as Mac Philib.

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