Fortunato

3,768 people in the United States were counted with the surname Fortunato in the 2020 census, making it the 8,419th most common in the country. That is about one person in 79,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,768
Rank: 8,419th
How common: 1 in 79,300
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

Borrowed from Italian Fortunato.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Fortunato described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 78.9%
Hispanic or Latino 15.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called Fortunato

Andrea Fortunato (1971–1995)Italian footballer
Lorenzo Fortunato (born 1996)Italian racing cyclist
Elvira Fortunato (born 1964)Microelectronics Engineer, is considered the mother of the paper transistor
Francesco Fortunato (born 1994)Italian racewalker

People named Fortunato with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Fortunato

Also a first name

Fortunato has been given to 910 American babies as a first name since 1910, peaking in 1922. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.