Fritts
A surname most likely from a German or Dutch personal name, often treated as a shortened or altered form related to Friedrich/Fritz.
The #5,864 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 52,481 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Fritts is generally understood as a name built from the Germanic personal name Friedrich, via the shorter pet form Fritz. In that sense, it originally meant something like "son or descendant of Fritz" rather than describing a job or place. The doubled final consonant is an English spelling shape that developed as the name was carried into Anglophone records.
History
The surname is found in North America, especially in communities with German-speaking ancestry, where immigrant names were often simplified or reshaped in spelling. It may also reflect an Anglicized or variant form of similar surnames built from Fritz or Friedrich. As with many such names, different families may have arrived at the same spelling through more than one path.
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Fun fact
Because Fritz was such a common German pet form of Friedrich, many apparently different surnames are actually relatives in disguise.