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The surname Fitzgibbons

A Norman patronymic surname, carried by 2,221 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex F321

Fitzgibbons: #13,640 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Fitzgibbons #13,640, 2,221 people Fitzgibbons: #13,640 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Fitzgibbons #13,640, 2,221 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fitzgibbons is more common than 91.6% of them.

Origin

Norman origin

An Irish surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as a patronymic].

Fitzgibbons is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

One of 128 Norman surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,221 people named Fitzgibbons in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 139,012 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,210.

#13,640
rank among US surnames
2,221
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+0.5%
change since 2000 (was #12,793)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#13,640Caples2,221139,012
#13,642Paw2,220139,075
#13,646Eid2,219139,137

Who is named Fitzgibbons

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

94% of people named Fitzgibbons identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
  • Two or more races 1.7%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Fitzgibbons

Fitzgibbons has the Soundex code F321, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F321.

Other Norman surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Fitzgibbons come from?
Fitzgibbons is Norman in origin.
How common is the surname Fitzgibbons?
2,221 people in the United States had the surname Fitzgibbons in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 139,012 Americans. It ranked 13,640th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Fitzgibbons?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Fitzgibbons identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Fitzgibbons?
Fitzgibbons is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Is the surname Fitzgibbons getting more or less common?
More common. 2,210 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,221 in 2010, up 0.5%.