Given name & surname
Fortuna
“storm”
Fortuna is a surname. It is used in Portuguese, Romanian, and Cebuano.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
In mythological stories, Fortuna is associated with the goddess of fortune and chance.
Fortuna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 59
- 0 boys · 59 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1925. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 295 as a first name in 2020; 3,592 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fortuna’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Fortuna has a later derivative in Fortune. Fortuna has a related form in Fortunata. Fortuna has a related form in Fortuin.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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