Entry № 3420 · Latin origin

Fortuna Fortuna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ for-TOO-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Roman goddess of fortune + Wheel of Fortune"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "roman goddess of fortune + wheel of fortune".

Fortuna is from the Latin Fortūna — Roman goddess of fortune, chance, and luck. Fortuna is one of the most-worshipped Roman deities — equivalent to Greek Tyche.

Roman goddess of fortune + Wheel of Fortune — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Fortūna
Transliteration
Fortūna
Pronunciation
/ fɔːrˈtuː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Fortuna stands.

Fortuna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Fortunas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Fortuna (Roman)
Roman goddess of fortune.

Names connected to Fortuna.

The number behind Fortuna.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fortuna reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.