Fitchett
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 'little Fitch'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈfɪtʃɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fitchett is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 65K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 187K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 48K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 269 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
1,780 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)'little Fitch'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fitchett counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,780 | 1 in 187K | 1.8K | Fitchett | 269 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Fitchett | 140 |
| CA Canada | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Fitchett | 62 |
| AU Australia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Fitchett | 62 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 440K | — | Fitchett | 16 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Fitchett | 44 |
| SG Singapore | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Fitchett | 1 |
1,780 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- John Fitchettb. 1776GBpoet
- Alfred Fitchettb. 1836NZAnglican dean
- William Henry Fitchettb. 1841AUAustralian educator, journalist and writer (1841–1928)
- Frederick Fitchettb. 1851NZNew Zealand politician
- Margaret Fitchettb. 1875NZNew Zealand artist (1875 - 1956)
- Jack Fitchettb. 1879GBEnglish footballer and actor (1879-?)
- Michael Fitchettb. 1927AUAustralian rules footballer and cricketer
- Michael Fitchettb. 1982NZNew Zealand basketball player (born 1982)
- Jennifer FitchettZASouth African climate scientist
- Christopher FitchettNZchemistry researcher in New Zealand
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,340 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,205 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fitchett mean, and where does it come from?
- 'little Fitch'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Fitchett?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɪtʃɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fitchett have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Fitchett, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fitchett.
- How common is the name Fitchett?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,780 people named Fitchett in 2010, about 1 in 187 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fitchettThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fitchett”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.