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Fortunato

Boys' name

Fortunate, blessed, happy

Fortunato has been given to 910 babies in the U.S. since 1910. 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 1922, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Fortunato, 2024

1 in 669,000

Fortunato over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fortunato: meaning, origin, and history

Fortunate, blessed, happy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fortunato means

Fortunato means “fortunate, blessed, happy”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fortunato is used in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /for.tu.ˈna.to/ and /foɾ.tu.ˈna.to/ for Fortunato.

Origin, language, and formation

Fortunato is used in Italian and Spanish.

Fortunato comes through Latin Fortūnātus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Fortunato is pronounced /for.tuˈna.to/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 910 boys were recorded with the name Fortunato between 1910 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,068 in 1911.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Fortunato?

Fortunato had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fortunato sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fortunato. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fortunatos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fortunato was born before 1944 — so the typical Fortunato is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
417
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Choose a decade

1920s — 19.2% of all recorded uses (175).

Is Fortunato 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 1922 (24)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,068
1911

Where Fortunato is used

Across 1910–2025, Fortunato was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 250,381 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Fortunato has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fortunato around the world

Where Fortunato 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
    1922–1974
    #1,757
    in 1974
  • South Australia
    1948–1989
    #478
    in 1989

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.

Fortunato by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,068
1911
Peak year
1922
24 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
910
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fortunato

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

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Sibling names for Fortunato

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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