Fortune Family History
Fortune Name Meaning
English and French: nickname for a gambler or for someone
considered fortunate or well favored, from Middle English, Old French
fortune ‘chance’, ‘luck’. In some cases it may derive from the
rare medieval personal name Fortune (Latin Fortunius).French (Fortuné): from the personal name
Fortuné, a vernacular form of the Late Latin personal name
Fortunatus meaning ‘prosperous’, ‘happy’.Scottish:
habitational name from a place in Lothian, probably so named from Old
English for ‘hog’, ‘pig’ + tun ‘settlement’,
‘enclosure’; John de Fortun was servant to the abbot of Kelso
c. 1200.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Fortune Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fortune families
 65 - 128  22 - 64 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fortune families
|
158 - 314 53 - 157 |
1 - 52 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fortune families
|
72 - 142 25 - 71 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Fortune Family Origin
Fortune Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Fortune
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Fortune Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Fortune census records
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