Forti

surname · Latin script

Meaning: forma plural de Forte; pode indicar origem de localidades chamadas Forte

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/forti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Forti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 41K(measured from records)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 51K
  • BRBrazil1 in 79K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,200 people, est.

Sources
97 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Portuguese

forma plural de Forte; pode indicar origem de localidades chamadas Forte

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Forti counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Forti is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈3,200 est.≈1 in 19KlistedForti34
BR Brazil2,6901 in 79K2.7KForti97
AR Argentina1,0961 in 41K1.1KForti54
US United States7601 in 438K790Forti75
VE Venezuela≈570 est.≈1 in 51K—Forti22
UY Uruguay1041 in 33K104Forti10

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Forti is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Forṭi

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Fortí

  • Ukrainian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Italy, United States

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Форті, Форти

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Forti is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • strong

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of fortis

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Achille Forti, b. 1878Helena Forti, b. 1884Giordano Forti, b. 1910Gilberto Forti, b. 1922Simone Forti, b. 1935Giuseppe Forti, b. 1939Guido Forti, b. 1940Simona Forti, b. 1958Andrea Forti, b. 1962Steven Forti, b. 1981

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Forti,Dear Forti, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Forti,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Forti
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.7K#3,766
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.1K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020790#31,403
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010760#30,665
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000753#29,543
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—104—
IT ItalyDizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978)———
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Forti?
A machine transcription gives /forti/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Forti mean?
Recorded meaning: forma plural de Forte; pode indicar origem de localidades chamadas Forte
In which country does Forti have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Forti in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled forti.
How common is the name Forti?
In Brazil, the national register counted 2,690 people named Forti, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Forti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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