Fitch

Fitch is the 1,933rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,247 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,400.

By the numbers

People: 18,247
Rank: 1,933rd
How common: 1 in 16,400
Per 100,000: 6.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

English surname, possibly from Old French fiche (“iron post”). A connection with the noun fitch (“polecat”) is unlikely as the surname predates it by at least 300 years.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Fitch described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.4%
Black, not Hispanic 8.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Fitch

Val Logsdon Fitch (1923–2015)American physicist
John Fitch (1743–1798)American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer
Horatio Fitch (1900–1985)athletics competitor
John Fitch (1917–2012)racecar driver
Bill Fitch (1934–2022)American basketball coach
Pierre Fitch (born 1981)Canadian pornographic actor
Alfred Fitch (1912–1981)athletics competitor
Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892)botanical illustrator

People named Fitch with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Fitch

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.