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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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