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    The surname Fitt

    An English nickname surname, carried by 417 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F300

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fitt is more common than 69.1% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Middle English fit (“proper, suited”), a nickname for a polite and amiable person.

    Fitt is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 417 people named Fitt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 740,397 Americans. That is down 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 467.

    #50,196
    rank among US surnames
    417
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -10.7%
    change since 2000 (was #43,546)

    Who is named Fitt

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    87% of people named Fitt identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.4%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Fitt

    Fitt has the Soundex code F300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F300.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Fitt come from?
    From Middle English fit (“proper, suited”), a nickname for a polite and amiable person.
    How common is the surname Fitt?
    417 people in the United States had the surname Fitt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 740,397 Americans. It ranked 50,196th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fitt?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Fitt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Fitt?
    Fitt is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Fitt getting more or less common?
    Less common. 467 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 417 in 2010, down 11%.