Fitt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a medieval nickname for a well-mannered person
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈfɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fitt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 118K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 798K
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands≈1 in 24K
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 Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈560 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a medieval nickname for a well-mannered person.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fitt 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 118K | listed | Fitt | 133 |
| US United States | — | 417 | 1 in 798K | 503 | Fitt | 186 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Fitt | 74 |
| PL Poland | — | 149 | 1 in 257K | 76 | — | 1 |
| IN India | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Fitt | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Fitt | 27 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #791 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Fitt | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Fitt is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Middle English fit 'fitting, suitable'; first attested Robert Fitte 1201 Cur (Sa)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Alternative form of fit (section of a poem or ballad)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, poem, song
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alfred B. Fittb. 1923USAmerican lawyer
- Gerry Fittb. 1926GBIrish politician (1926-2005)
- Arthur Fittb. 1928Australian rules footballer
- Liv Fitb. 1997USnot in their usual nameAmerican model
- Alistair FittGBBritish academic
- Helen FittNZgeographer
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 503 | #45,763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 467 | #43,546 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 417 | #50,196 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 76 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 76 | #36,568 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 73 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 73 | #38,136 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Fitt mean, and where does it come from?
- from a medieval nickname for a well-mannered person. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Fitt?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fitt have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 556 people named Fitt in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fitt.
- How common is the name Fitt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 417 people named Fitt in 2010, about 1 in 798 thousand residents.
- How common is Fitt compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Fitt is the 791st most common surname of 3,662 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fittThe 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, “Fitt” — the 791st most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.