Show ContentsFrits History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The Frits surname finds its roots in a Germanic personal name derived from of the word "frid" meaning "peace."

Early Origins of the Frits family

The surname Frits was first found in Bavaria, Brandenburg, Prussia, and Sweden, where the name emerged in medieval times as one of the notable families of the region. From the 13th century on the surname was identified with the great social and economic evolution which made this territory a landmark contributor to the development of the nation.

Early History of the Frits family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Frits research. Another 167 words (12 lines of text) covering the years 1547, 1590, 1636, 1647, 1654, 1686, 1697, 1715, 1721, 1725, 1730, 1742, 1766 and 1775 are included under the topic Early Frits History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Frits Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Fritze, Fritzsch, Fritzsche, Frick, Fritts and many more.

Early Notables of the Frits family

Notables of the time with the name Frits included Nikodemus Frischlin (1547-1590), a great humanist, who traveled throughout Europe; Samuel Fritz (1654-c.1725), a Czech Jesuit missionary from Trautenau, Bohemia, noted for his exploration of the Amazon River and its basin. Between 1686 and 1715, he founded thirty-eight missions along the length of the Amazon River.Barthold Fritz, the celebrated mechanician and maker of instruments...
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United States Frits migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Frits Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
  • Niklaas Frits, who arrived in New York in 1709 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Frits (post 1700) +

  • Frits Kuipers (1899-1943), Dutch footballer
  • Frits Warmolt Went (1903-1990), Dutch biologist whose proved the existence of auxin in plants in 1928
  • Frits Helmuth (1931-2004), Danish film actor
  • Frits Staal (b. 1930), Dutch-born, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Frits Egmond, Actor
  • Frits Zernike (1888-1966), Dutch physicist


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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