What does the name fitch mean?

Answer 1

(noun) polecat, fitch, foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius - Dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia. The fur of an European polecat ferret

1. the European polecat, Mustela putorius putorius; farmed for its fur.

2. pelt of the polecat. Boy's name - Fitch \f(i)-tch, fit-ch\ is of Middle English origin. Use as a name probably goes back to an ancestor who hunted or kept fitch Fitch Surname Meaning and History English: of disputed origin. Reaney rejects the traditional explanation that it is a nickname derived from early modern English fitch 'polecat', as this word is not recorded in this form until the 16th century, whereas the byname or surname Fitchet is found as early as the 12th century. He proposes instead that the name may be from Old French fiche 'stake' (used as a boundary marker), but with the sense 'iron point', and so a metonymic occupational name for a workman who used an iron-pointed implement. Source: Ancestry.com

Fitch Meaning: one who came from Fitz (Fita's spur of land), in Shropshire; dweller at the sign of the fitch, the European polecat; one who fought or worked with a pointed instrument.