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Fortunata

Girls' name

Feminine form of Fortunato

Fortunata has been given to 253 babies in the U.S. since 1908. 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 1918, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Fortunata, 1978

1 in 635,000

Fortunata over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fortunata: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Fortunato

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fortunata means

Fortunata is a feminine form of Fortunato.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fortunata is used in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Rare) and Ancient Roman.

Another recorded pronunciation is /for.tu.ˈna.ta/ and /foɾ.tu.ˈna.ta/ for Fortunata.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fortunata → Fortunato. The family’s meaning is “fortunate, blessed, happy”, recorded in the naming reference for Fortunato.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fortunato.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 253 girls were recorded with the name Fortunata between 1908 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,616 in 1918.

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 Fortunata?

Fortunata had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1978
1 in 635,000
5 of 3,173,639 births
Among girls only
1 in 306,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1978
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
439,961 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fortunata 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 1978 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 439,961 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fortunata. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fortunatas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fortunata was born before 1920 — so the typical Fortunata is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
44.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (112).

Is Fortunata 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 1918 (25)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,616
1918

Where Fortunata is used

Across 1910–2025, Fortunata was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 312,749 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 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. Fortunata has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fortunata around the world

Where Fortunata 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.

  • France
    1957–1964
    #2,114
    in 1964
  • South Australia
    1958–1974
    #683
    in 1974

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Fortunata 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
#1,616
1918
Peak year
1918
25 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
253
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fortunata

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

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Sibling names for Fortunata

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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