Fritz

Where Fritz comes from

Borrowed from German Fritz, pet form of Friedrich (“Frederick”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Fritz
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1868
    Fritz Haber born
    German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among boys — 18 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1888
    Peak, #387
    23 babies named Fritz — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1890
    Fritz Lang born
    Austrian filmmaker
  5. 1901
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #858.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Friedrich.
Namesakes
  • Fritz Haber · German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize, 1868–1934
  • Fritz Lang · Austrian filmmaker, 1890–1976
  • Fritz Pregl · Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist, 1869–1930
  • Fritz Albert Lipmann · German-American biochemist, 1899–1986
  • Fritz Zwicky · Swiss astronomer, 1898–1974

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.