Surname Spotlight: Fitzhenry
A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Fitzhenry, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.
Meaning of the name
Fitzhenry began as an English family name. The usual explanation, from Elsdon Smith, is βthe son of Henry (home-ruler)β.
It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear. In the 2010 US Census, 684 Americans gave Fitzhenry as their last name (rank 33,379). It sits among the 50,000 most common last names in the country.
Research your Fitzhenry family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.