Fortunat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Latin fortunatus 'the lucky one'; also saint name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɔɹtʃunət/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fortunat is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 2 (measured from records)
no count published
Reference-verified
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Latin fortunatus 'the lucky one'; also saint name
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fortunat counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 151 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 69 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | 29 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 9 | — | — |
| AT Austria | — | 3 | — | — |
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 2020; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Fortunat is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Du latin fortuna/fortunatus, « heureux, fortuné, chanceux »; fête non indiquée.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Origine latine, signifie « chance »; dérivé de Fortuna/fortunatus.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du latin fortunatus, « heureux, favorisé par la fortune ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du latin fortunatus, « favorisé par la fortune ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Romanian, < lat. Fortunatus norocosul". 1. Furtunat, razes, 1644 (M Put 197).2. Furtund (v. Partea a II-a).
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
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)
- Francisco Pizarro Fortunatb. 1971PEassociation football player
- Herby Fortunatb. 1982HTHaitian-French footballer
- Anton FortunatSIresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 151 | #120,768 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 128 | #132,206 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 69 | #6,018 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 14 | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Fortunat mean, and where does it come from?
- from Latin fortunatus 'the lucky one'; also saint name Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Fortunat?
- A machine transcription gives /fɔɹtʃunət/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fortunat have the most bearers?
- Fortunat is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Fortunat?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fortunatThe 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, “Fortunat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.