Fritz
Fritz is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 53 births. Its best rank was 389th, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 530.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1956107 births
- Best rank
- #389in 1888
- Since 1880
- 6,635people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,635 boys have been named Fritz in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 107 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 13%. It has spent 89 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Fritz | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 165 | |
| 1890s | 165 | |
| 1900s | 137 | |
| 1910s | 524 | |
| 1920s | 657 | |
| 1930s | 672 | |
| 1940s | 595 | |
| 1950s | 879 | |
| 1960s | 746 | |
| 1970s | 473 | |
| 1980s | 373 | |
| 1990s | 278 | |
| 2000s | 270 | |
| 2010s | 438 | |
| 2020s | 263 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Fritz was the 710th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1956 were Michael, James, Robert, David and John. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Fritz
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Guypeak 1957
- Alonzapeak 1961
- Hardypeak 1921
- Napoleonpeak 1926
- Amospeak 1922
- Hughpeak 1916
- Benpeak 1918
- Frankpeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.