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Fritz

#2,727 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Friedrich

Fritz has been given to 6,683 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,727 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1956, with 107 recorded.

Babies named Fritz, 2025

1 in 70,500

Fritz over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fritz: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Friedrich

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fritz means

Fritz is a diminutive of Friedrich.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fritz → Friedrich → Friedrich → *Friþurīk → *Friþurīks. The family’s meaning is “peace + king, ruler”, recorded in Proto-Germanic with the source elements friþuz and rīks.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from German Fritz, pet form of Friedrich (“Frederick”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Fritz (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Fritz is used in English and German.

Fritz comes through German Fritz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Friedrich and Fred.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Fritz is pronounced /fɹɪts/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,683 boys were recorded with the name Fritz between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 107 in 1956; its best national rank was #389 in 1888.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,632 in 2020 to #2,727 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,780 in 2015 to #2,727 in 2025.

How common is Fritz?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 36,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,727
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fritz sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fritz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fritzs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fritz was born before 1955 — so the typical Fritz is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
13.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,768
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 13.2% of all recorded uses (879).

Is Fritz rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−215
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−95
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+53
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.9%
Peak was 1956 (107)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#389
1888

Spellings of Fritz

Fritz is the most-used spelling, taking 34.2% of the 19,524 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Fritz is used

Across 2016–2025, Fritz was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 68,238 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 20,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Fritz around the world

Where Fritz ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2014
    #3,895
    in 2014
  • France
    1900–2021
    #6,884
    in 2021
  • Norway
    1880–2023
    #496
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1993–2023
    #2,931
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1956–1966
    #536
    in 1966

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Fritz

People whose public names include Fritz, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Fritz in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Fritz. Linked forms have their own page here.

FritsFryco

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Fritz by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,727
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 95
Best rank ever
#389
1888
Peak year
1956
107 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,683
Count in 2025
47

Names similar to Fritz

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Fritz

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Fritz, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Fritz

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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