Fortu
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/foɾtw/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Fortu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 5Kfew recordsas Foti(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 11Kas Fort
- ESSpain1 in 25Kas Fort
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fortu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 270 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 named Foti, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est., as Foti
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Foti in US United States, IT Italy, SH St. Helena and Φωτη in GR Greece.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fortu 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | listed | Foti | 59 |
| US United States | — | 8,117as Fort | 1 in 41K | 8.1K | Foti | 270 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,039as Fort | 1 in 25K | 2K | — | 5 |
| AR Argentina | — | 781as Foti | 1 in 58K | 781 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 688as Fort | 1 in 308K | 688 | — | 1 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 2 | Φωτη | 38 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 298as Fort | 1 in 11K | 298 | — | — |
| SH St. Helena | #117 | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Foti | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 24 | #75,468 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 24 | #73,510 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Fortu?
- In Spanish /foɾtw/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Fortu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Foti in Italy, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Fortu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,117 people named Fort in 2010, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Fortu compared with other names?
- In St. Helena, Fortu is the 117th most common surname of 3,440 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Fortu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fortuThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fortu” — the 117th most common surname in St. Helena. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.