Fritz
Meaning
peaceful ruler (short form of Friedrich)
The formal names behind Fritz
Fritz is an established short form of this name.
Frederick · Germanic origin · peaceful ruler
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Fritz peaked in the 2010s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
309 people · the #18,657 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 52
Among people named Fritz living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1960s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Fritz deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Fritz truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Fritz fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Fritz travels
Haitian · peaceful ruler (Haitian Creole form of Frederick)
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