 The name's pronunciation, going by its appearance in documents, has not changed since 1355.The placename ending "—weiler" bears witness to Frutzweiler's beginnings as a very small settlement ("Weiler" is the word for “hamlet” in modern-day German, although it originally meant “homestead”), and the other part of the name, "Frutz—", likely means that it was founded by a man named "Fruodi".Other forms of the name that have appeared in writing over the ages are