Family name origins & meanings
- English (chiefly Lancashire) : nickname from Middle English fitten ‘lying’, ‘deceit’ (of unknown origin).
- English (chiefly Lancashire) : possibly a habitational name from Fitton Hall in Cambridgeshire, named in Anglo-Scandinavian as ‘settlement (Old English tūn) on the fit (Old Norse fit)’, a term denoting grassland on the bank of a river.