Family name origins & meanings
- Translation of German Frucht, a nickname from Middle High German vrucht ‘fruit’, ‘child’, ‘offspring’, or possibly a Jewish ornamental name or a metonymic occupational name for a fruit grower, from German Frucht ‘fruit’.
- Americanized spelling of German Fruth.
- French : metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of fruit, from fruit ‘fruit’ (Latin fructus).