Fritz

Fritz is the 1,099th most common surname in the United States, shared by 31,402 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,518.

By the numbers

People: 31,402
Rank: 1,099th
How common: 1 in 9,518
Per 100,000: 10.5

Where the name comes from

Origin German

pet form of Friedrich (“Frederick”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Fritz

Clemens Fritz (born 1980)German footballer
Taylor Fritz (born 1997)American tennis player
Henning Fritz (born 1974)handball player
Roger Fritz (1936–2021)German actor, film director and photographer
Samuel Fritz (1654–1725)Czech traveller, cartographer, Christian missionary and Roman Catholic priest
Dominic Fritz (born 1983)German-Romanian politician
Albert Fritz (1947–2019)German bicycle racer and track cyclist

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

Surnames like Fritz

Also a first name

Fritz has been given to 6,683 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1956. 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.