Fritz

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Fritz: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Fritz: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 14 years, its highest recorded position is #211, and it stood at #511 in 2023.

2registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
79years from first to last
#211highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Fritz's record

Absent from every published list for 14 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 2002–2014

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#3225
2006	#4052
2011	#4647
2014	#3895

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 36 of the 79 years from 1945 to 2023.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #211 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2023
Highest recorded position: #211 among boys in Norway, in 1945 (recorded 1945–2023).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #511 among boys in Norway, in 2023.
Norway · Boys

Fritz appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 36 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 275 births with the name.

Fritz across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Fritz's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#211 (1945)	#211 (1945)	#511 (2023)	36 of 79	275 (1945–2023)	16 (1945)
England and Wales · Boys	#3225 (2002)	#3225 (2002)	#3895 (2014)	4 of 13	13 (2002–2014)	4 (2014)

Fritz by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Fritz in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	54	5 of 10	11
1950s	95	10 of 10	10
1960s	76	10 of 10	8
1970s	38	8 of 10	5
1980s	4	1 of 10	4
2010s	4	1 of 10	4
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Fritz appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #211 in Norway in 1945.

Fritz's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#511	4	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#521	4	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#616	4	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#572	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#516	6	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#597	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#605	4	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#591	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#470	7	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#588	4	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#572	4	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#406	8	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#385	9	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#458	6	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#456	6	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#354	9	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#365	9	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#421	6	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#491	4	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#362	7	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#281	12	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#423	5	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#351	7	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#347	7	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#231	15	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#244	12	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#296	8	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#367	5	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#322	7	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#232	13	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#215	16	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#261	10	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#262	10	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#334	6	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#247	12	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#211	16	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2023, ranked in 40 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #211, first reached in 1945.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in Norway in 1945.

Its record falls into 10 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 14 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 57 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Frithjof · #246, 13y
Frits · #219, 16y
Frode · #3, 63y
Frøya · #56, 34y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Juliane · #212, 40y
Ethel · #217, 45y
Humphrey · #204, 43y
Bill · #203, 35y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Sturla · #211, 66y
Emmy · #210, 47y
Gerda · #212, 40y
Gjert · #212, 28y

Fritz was ranked #211 in Norway · Boys in 1945. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Fritz and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Fritz without appearing here.

Fritz moved ahead of

Ronald Compare
In 1978 they stood at #597 and #284 in Norway · Boys; by 1979 that had become #572 and #635.
Stig Compare
In 2015 they stood at #616 and #60 in Norway · Boys; by 2016 that had become #521 and #538.
Odd Compare
In 2022 they stood at #521 and #368 in Norway · Boys; by 2023 that had become #511 and #524.

Moved ahead of Fritz

Levi Compare
In 2015 they stood at #605 and #615 in Norway · Boys; by 2016 that had become #521 and #106.
Julian Compare
In 1986 they stood at #516 and #525 in Norway · Boys; by 1987 that had become #616 and #215.
Kevin Compare
In 1972 they stood at #470 and #477 in Norway · Boys; by 1973 that had become #591 and #245.
Colin Compare
In 2015 they stood at #572 and #609 in Norway · Boys; by 2016 that had become #521 and #238.

Moved the opposite way to Fritz

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Fritz went from #211 to #511 while Aksel went from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Fritz went from #211 to #511 while Alfred went from #127 to #18.
Andreas Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Fritz went from #211 to #511 while Andreas went from #140 to #55.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Fritz went from #211 to #511 while Arthur went from #153 to #86.

Moved the same way as Fritz

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Fritz went from #211 to #511 and Anders from #55 to #189.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Fritz went from #211 to #511 and Arild from #32 to #498.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Fritz went from #211 to #511 and Arne from #6 to #210.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Fritz went from #211 to #511 and Bjørn from #3 to #82.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #211 in Norway in 1945. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Fritz

Fritz at a glance

What stands out in Fritz's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Fritz across 2 official records

Fritz by decade in Norway · Boys

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Fritz at a glance

What stands out in Fritz's record

Fritz across 2 official records

Fritz by decade in Norway · Boys

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What the record shows

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