Given name & surname
Fitzroy
“the son of Roy”
Fitzroy is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “the son of Roy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “the son of Roy.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Anglo-Norman fitz (du) roy (“son of the king”), built from English Fitz- + roy.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1964. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fitzroy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 192
- 192 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,175 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,175 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,274 as a first name in 2020; 234 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fitzroy’s family of names
Fitzroy has a related form in Fytzroy.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fitzroy
- FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron RaglanBritish politician (1788-1855)
- Fitzroy SimpsonJamaican footballer (born 1970)
- Fitzroy DunkleyJamaican sprinterborn 1993
- Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st BaronetScottish soldier, writer and politician (1911-1996)
- FitzRoy Somerset, 4th Baron RaglanBritish anthropologist and peer (1885–1964)
- Fitzroy Hoytecyclist1940–2008
- Fitzroy CarringtonEnglish-born American editor who became known as a leading authority on prints, particularly those of the 15th and 16th centuries1869–1954
- Fitzroy KellyBritish politician1796–1880
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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