Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald is the 442nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 72,557 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,119.

By the numbers

People: 72,557
Rank: 442nd
How common: 1 in 4,119
Per 100,000: 24.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.4%
Black, not Hispanic 8.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)American writer
Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996)American jazz singer
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)American writer
George FitzGerald (1851–1901)Irish physicist
Barry Fitzgerald (1888–1961)Irish actor
Michael Fitzgerald (born 1988)New Zealand association football player
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000)British writer and poet
Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883)English poet and translator

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

Surnames like Fitzgerald

Also a first name

Fitzgerald has been given to 1,941 American babies as a first name since 1919, peaking in 1964. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.