English: generally said to be from Anglo-Norman French
fi(t)z ‘son’, used originally to distinguish a son from a
father bearing the same personal name.It could also
be a habitational name from a place in Shropshire called Fitz,
recorded in 1194 as Fittesho, from an Old English personal
name, Fitt, + hoh ‘hill spur’.In one
family at least, it is an altered form of English Fitch.German: unexplained. Possibly from a vernacular pet form of
the personal name Vincent.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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