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Fortuna

Girls' name

Luck

Fortuna has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Fortuna, 1925

1 in 389,000

Fortuna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fortuna: meaning, origin, and history

Luck

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fortuna means

Fortuna means “luck”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fortuna is used in Roman Mythology.

Another recorded pronunciation is /for.ˈtuː.na/ for Fortuna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 59 girls were recorded with the name Fortuna between 1915 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1917; its best national rank was #2,958 in 1917.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Fortuna?

Fortuna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1925, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1925
1 in 389,000
6 of 2,333,232 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1925
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
269,547 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fortuna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1925 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 269,547 children born in 1925 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fortuna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fortunas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fortuna was born before 1919 — so the typical Fortuna is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
50.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Fortuna rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (10)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,958
1917

Where Fortuna is used

Across 1910–2025, Fortuna was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,136,945 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fortuna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fortuna around the world

Where Fortuna ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    1902–2020
    #7,557
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Fortuna by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,958
1917
Peak year
1917
10 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1925
All-time count
59
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fortuna

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Fortuna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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