Fortunatus Forename

53,125th
Most Common
name in the World

Approximately 12,351 people bear this name

Most prevalent in:
Tanzania
Highest density in:
Tanzania

Fortunatus Forename Definition:

A Latin name signifying lucky, happy, fortunate.

Fortunatus Forename Distribution

PlaceGenderIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Tanzania
99%
 
10,7341:4,918798
Nigeria
99%
 
5701:311,51611,465
Ghana
100%
4491:60,1033,023
Indonesia-3701:697,19947,881
South Africa
94%
 
601:908,87735,818
Zambia-381:417,23110,440
Kenya-281:1,653,82520,013
DR Congo
100%
271:2,734,35659,996
United States-211:17,263,666147,392
Cameroon-91:2,401,16748,579
India
100%
51:242,975,5942,326,743
Rwanda-41:2,842,8582,668
Malawi
50%
 
41:4,278,07813,569
England-41:13,900,73089,263
Sweden
100%
31:3,285,96941,581
Uganda
67%
 
31:13,652,30774,436
Switzerland
100%
21:4,106,74825,883
Saint Lucia
100%
21:88,9085,280
Zimbabwe
100%
11:15,423,817113,731
Papua New Guinea
100%
11:8,152,314202,620
Philippines
100%
11:106,009,477690,015
Thailand-11:70,065,813391,235
Belize-11:354,3097,663
Norway-11:5,132,32937,513
Netherlands-11:16,902,08343,152
Malaysia-11:30,449,940373,101
Liberia
100%
11:4,412,06136,340
Kuwait-11:3,785,26415,388
Ivory Coast
100%
11:23,075,933135,227
Italy-11:61,062,09083,289
Germany-11:96,677,87695,912
Finland-11:5,483,18325,487
Denmark-11:5,649,49828,429
Canada-11:33,133,372113,810
Burkina Faso
100%
11:18,379,469100,219
Brazil-11:214,236,154864,335

Fortunatus (7,326) may also be a surname.

Fortunatus Forename Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

A Latin name signifying lucky, happy, fortunate.

Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock

Latin (masculine) - Happy.

What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody

For-tew-nay'-tus, happy, prosperous. One whom St. Paul mentions 1 Cor. xvi. 17, who came from Corinth to Ephesus to visit the apostle.

The Proper Names of The Bible (1855) by John Farrar

Meaning: well freighted.

A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson

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