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The FORTUNE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,016 3018 0.004 41
United States (1880 census) 2,483 2448 0.005 50
Change since 1880 +8533 -570 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 297 5265 0.002 18
United Kingdom 2,173 2756 0.005 47
Top States for FORTUNE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 865 1106 0.012 122
New York 828 2372 0.004 44
Florida 760 2835 0.005 48
California 637 4736 0.002 19
Texas 504 4433 0.002 24
Top States for FORTUNE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 74 917 0.013 129
Virginia 865 1106 0.012 122
Vermont 63 1779 0.010 103
Rhode Island 101 1667 0.010 96
Montana 81 1486 0.009 90

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

Classification and Origin of FORTUNE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FORTUNE 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 FORTUNE 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 FORTUNE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 257 2.33
White (Hispanic) 139 1.26
Native American/Alaskan 127 1.15
Asian/Pacific 69 0.63
White (Caucasian) 6,646 60.33
Black/African American 3,778 34.3

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

Meaning of FORTUNE in historical publications

FORTUNE. A place in Haddingtonshire.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FORTUNE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORTUNE.

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 FORTUNE

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