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The FORTUN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 312 60390 0 1
United States (1880 census) 36 58491 0 1
Change since 1880 +276 -1899 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 1 304689 0 0
United Kingdom 30 27542 0 1
Top States for FORTUN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 90 16244 0.001 6
Wisconsin 60 12690 0.001 11
California 35 51161 0.000 1
Washington 23 25269 0.000 4
Minnesota 20 30896 0.000 4
Top States for FORTUN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 60 12690 0.001 11
Florida 90 16244 0.001 6
Minnesota 20 30896 0.000 4
Washington 23 25269 0.000 4
Nebraska 6 27351 0.000 4

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FORTUN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FORTUN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FORTUN in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FORTUN by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FORTUN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FORTUN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FORTUN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FORTUN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 190 60.9
White (Hispanic) 89 28.53
Asian/Pacific 17 5.45
Black/African American 10 3.21
Mixed Race 6 1.92
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FORTUN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FORTUN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of FORTUN.

Similar names to FORTUN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORTUN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FORTUN

The following words are slight variants of FORTUN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.