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The fortuna Surname

fortuna Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese: from fortuna ‘chance’, ‘luck’, possibly applied as a nickname for a gambler or lucky person or in some cases as a continuation of the Late Latin personal name.
  2. Slovenian: nickname from Latin fortuna ‘fate’, ‘luck’, probably denoting a lucky person (see 1).
  3. Slovenian: shortened form of the personal name Fortunat, Latin Fortunatus (see Fortunato).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The fortuna name in History

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Distribution of fortuna Families in the US in 1920
Number of fortuna families
 16-29
 6-15		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 16 - Messages: 26
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Vincenzo and Anna Fortuna family from Monteleone to Argentina David Fortuna 0
Fortuna/Fortune in New Orleans rorypcollins 0
Henry Fortunia (Fortuna) Sr. Lasenda B. 0
Fortune penheart 2
Pasquale Bruno, son of William and Rose Fortuna-Bruno shellene_1 0
Paolo Fortuna kennethjames84 0
joseph fortuna marie fortuna milone 0
al fortuna bob fulk 0
Stefan Fortuna+Regina Daniel in Poland JudyDaniels16 0
Fortuna-Genoa Italy stcake 3
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