Meaning not yet researched.
Fitz: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,853 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,853 in 2020; #3,467 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fitz in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,467 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,853.
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Fitz: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,853 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 80 (2020).
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Fitz, making it the 3,467th most common boys’ name of the year, down 982 places from #2,485 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 55 boys named Fitz in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,853, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 80. For comparison, it was #3,390 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fitz in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 6 babies. In all, 722 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 336 babies named Fitz.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 538 US boys were named Fitz; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 80. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Fitzgerald (1,941 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Fitz in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 33 | #3,467 |
| 2024 | — | — | 55 | #2,485 |
| 2023 | — | — | 38 | #3,193 |
| 2022 | — | — | 54 | #2,530 |
| 2021 | — | — | 76 | #1,967 |
| 2020 | — | — | 80 | #1,853 |
| 2019 | — | — | 63 | #2,221 |
| 2018 | — | — | 46 | #2,684 |
| 2017 | — | — | 54 | #2,397 |
| 2016 | — | — | 39 | #3,023 |
| 2015 | — | — | 33 | #3,390 |
| 2014 | — | — | 17 | #5,323 |
| 2013 | — | — | 13 | #6,366 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,290 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #11,084 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #8,859 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,558 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,659 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,594 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,583 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #5,891 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,479 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,328 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,138 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,095 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,253 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,859 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #2,953 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #3,050 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,679 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,180 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,450 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,265 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,884 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,035 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).