How common is the surname Fitton?

1,041 people in the United States had the surname Fitton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 296,586 Americans. It ranked 24,159th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Fitton?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Fitton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Fitton getting more or less common?

More common. 992 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,041 in 2010, up 4.9%.

The surname Fitton

A Norse place surname, carried by 1,041 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F350

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fitton is more common than 85.1% of them.

Origin

Norse origin

Two possible origins: * From Middle English fiton, fittin (“lie, falsehood”), a nickname for a liar or cheat. * A habitational surname from a minor place in Cambridgeshire, from Old Norse fit (“grassland on the bank of a river”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Fitton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,041 people named Fitton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 296,586 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 992.

#24,159

rank among US surnames

1,041

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+4.9%

change since 2000 (was #23,796)

Who is named Fitton

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

96% of people named Fitton identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Fitton

Fithian

Fitton has the Soundex code F350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F350.

Other Norse surnames

All 126 Norse surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Fitton come from?: Two possible origins: * From Middle English fiton, fittin (“lie, falsehood”), a nickname for a liar or cheat. * A habitational surname from a minor place in Cambridgeshire, from Old Norse fit (“grassland on the bank of a river”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
How common is the surname Fitton?: 1,041 people in the United States had the surname Fitton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 296,586 Americans. It ranked 24,159th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Fitton?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Fitton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Fitton?: Fitton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Fitton getting more or less common?: More common. 992 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,041 in 2010, up 4.9%.