Fortunato
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Dal lat. Fortunatus, 'fortunato'; nome di molti santi
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fortunato is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 4.8K
- ITItaly≈1 in 9.7K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Dal lat. Fortunatus, 'fortunato'; nome di molti santi.
Sources 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fortunato 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Fortunato | 50 |
| PE Peru | #357 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Fortunato | 50 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 18 | Fortunato | 125 |
| AR Argentina | #690 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | 2.5K | Fortunato | 69 |
| AO Angola | #380 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Fortunato | 26 |
| US United States | — | 1,759 | 1 in 189K | 4K | Fortunato | 198 |
| BO Bolivia | #154 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Fortunato | 19 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Fortunato 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 Italian, Nome di ventisei Santi, che non richiede spiegazione. In Italia è specialmente venerato S. Fortunato di Aquileja, martire con S. Ermagora, I secolo. 12 luglio.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, forma italiana de Fortunatus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
From Late Latin forttiindtus ‘fortunate’. Feminine form: Fortunata.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
From Late Latin fortindtus ‘fortunate’. Feminine form: Fortunata.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, männl. Vom., italienische und spanische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Fortunato Pio Castellanib. 1794ITItalian goldsmith and antiquarian seller
- Fortunato Deperob. 1892ITItalian painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer (1892–1960)
- Ezio Pinzab. 1892ITnot in their usual nameItalian opera singer (1892-1957)
- Fortunato Misianob. 1899ITItalian film producer (1899–1976)
- Fortunato Arenab. 1922ITItalian actor (1922-1994)
- Leopoldo Galtierib. 1926ARnot in their usual namemilitary, dictator and de facto president of Argentina from 1981 until 1982
- Fortunato Baldellib. 1935ITItalian cardinal (1935–2012)
- Franco Bonvicinib. 1941ITnot in their usual nameItalian comic book artist (1941-1995)
- Fortunato Cerlinob. 1971ITItalian actor and film director
- Fortunato Balianib. 1974ITRoad racing cyclist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 72 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4K | #8,201 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,864 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.8K | #8,419 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.5K | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- What does the name Fortunato mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dal lat. Fortunatus, 'fortunato'; nome di molti santi.
- Is Fortunato a male or female name?
- Fortunato is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Fortunato?
- In the etymology graph, Fortunatus is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Fortunato have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Fortunato in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fortunato.
- How common is the name Fortunato?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,759 people named Fortunato in 2020, about 1 in 189 thousand residents.
- How common is Fortunato compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Fortunato is the 154th most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fortunatoThe 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, “Fortunato” — the 154th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.