Origin and popularity of the name FORTUNE

Origin

Fortune : 1: English: from Anglo-Norman French fortin a diminutive of Old French fort ‘strong’. Compare Fortin 1.2: English: from the Latin personal name Fortunus or a variant of Forton.3: Scottish: habitational name from East and West Fortune in Athelstaneford East Lothian probably so named from Old English fōr ‘hog pig’ + tūn ‘settlement enclosure’. John de Fortun was servant to the abbot of Kelso c. 1200. This name also became established in Ireland from an early date and was Gaelicized there as Ó Foirtchcheirn.4: Altered form of French Fortin.5: French (Fortuné): from the personal name Fortuné a vernacular form of the Late Latin personal name Fortunatus meaning ‘prosperous happy’.6: Americanized form of Italian Slovenian and Croatian Fortuna or Norwegian and Slovenian Fortun.7: Americanized form of Dutch Fortuin: from fortuin ‘luck fortune’ a topographic or habitational name referring to a house named with this word.

Bakht : from Urdu bakht ‘good fortune luck prosperity’; compare Baksh.

Barakat : Arabic (mainly Egypt and the Levant): from a personal name based on Arabic barakāt ‘blessings good fortune prosperity’ also found in combinations such as Barakātullāh ‘blessings of God’. Bearers of this surname are both Muslims and Christians.

Beato : Spanish Portuguese and southern Italian: from the personal name Beato an omen or well-wishing name from Latin beatus ‘blessed; happy prosperous’ bestowed on a child in the hope of bringing him good fortune.

Devin : 1: Irish: variant of Devine 1.2: English Irish and French: nickname of literal or ironic application from Middle English devin divin Old French devin ‘divine’. Compare Devine 2.3: French: nickname from devin ‘sorcerer fortune teller’ (related to the verb deviner ‘to divine foretell’). Compare Devine 3.4: Russian: metronymic from deva ‘girl’ normally a designation of an illegitimate child. Perhaps also a patronymic from a nickname for an effeminate man.5: Jewish (American): shortened form of Jewish (from Eastern Europe) Devinisky or Devinishsky: habitational name from the town in Lithuania called Devenishki in Russian and Dieveniškės in Lithuanian.

Gwinner : South German: nickname from Middle High German gewinnen ‘to achieve fortune and wealth through hard work’.

Indovina : Italian: occupational name from indovina (feminine form) ‘soothsayer fortune teller magician wizard’ and in Sicily ‘praying mantis’.

Lafortune : 1: French: from la fortune ‘(the) fortune luck’ used as a soldier's name. This surname is rare in France.2: West Indian (mainly Haiti): from the male personal name or nickname Lafortune which has the same meaning as 1 above.

Saad : Arabic and Jewish (from Syria): from a personal name based on Arabic saʿd ‘good fortune good luck success’ ultimately derived from the same root (s-ʿ-d ‘happy fortunate’) as the names Massad Masud and Said 2. Among Arabs Saʿd is often used to form names in combination with other words for example Saʿd Allāh or Saʿdullāh ‘joy of Allah’ an epithet of the prophet Muhammad. Arabic bearers of the surname Saad are both Muslims and Christians.

Woan : perhaps from Middle English wone ‘luck fortune hope expectation; abundance plenty’ (Old Scandinavian ván).

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