Fortuna Family History
Fortuna Name Meaning
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.Slovenian: nickname from Latin
fortuna ‘fate’, ‘luck’, probably denoting a lucky person (see
1).Slovenian: shortened form of the personal name
Fortunat, Latin Fortunatus (see Fortunato).
SL.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fortuna
Name Distribution of Fortuna Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fortuna families
 16 - 29  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fortuna families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Fortuna Family Origin
Fortuna Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Fortuna
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Fortuna Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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