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in reply to a message by Xuxu
I did come across this recently when looking up something relatively unrelated:
(Talking about the history of Irish surnames)
"At first the surname was formed by prefixing Mac to the father's Christian name or O to that of a grandfather or earlier ancestor, Fitz was from the French fils meaning son. A girl added Ni before her father's name, while her mother prefixed Ban."
So going just off that information, there is no feminine version of Fitz since it's used in Irish taken from French.
(Talking about the history of Irish surnames)
"At first the surname was formed by prefixing Mac to the father's Christian name or O to that of a grandfather or earlier ancestor, Fitz was from the French fils meaning son. A girl added Ni before her father's name, while her mother prefixed Ban."
So going just off that information, there is no feminine version of Fitz since it's used in Irish taken from French.
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Sort of like in Welsh. Sons would have their first name + ap + their father's name, "ap" meaning son of. Daughters sometimes did the same thing but (if I'm not mistaken) used "verch" and then their father's name to indicate they were the daughters of so-and-so. They rarely took a new name upon marriage, and instead they kept the old ones.
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