Fortuna

Girl name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• 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).