Fortunat
Straight from Latin: *fortunatus* meant fortunate and blessed, grown from *fortuna*, luck itself. Just nine men in Poland carry it now, and not one has been born this century, so meeting a Fortunat would stay with you.
Fortunat Pronunciation
Fortunat is pronounced for-TOO-naht (/fɔrˈtunat/).
What Fortunat means
Where Fortunat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fortunat comes straight from Latin. The adjective fortunatus meant fortunate and blessed, and it grew from fortuna, the Roman word for luck itself. A person given the name was already counted among the favoured.
The name kept real company. Venantius Fortunatus, a poet and bishop of Poitiers in the sixth century, wrote Latin hymns that churches still sing today. Early martyrs called Fortunatus fill the old calendars, and that is how the name reached Polish through the Church. The feminine variant Fortunata stands beside it, same root, same promise of good fortune.
On a class register the name lifts itself above the Piotrs and Antonis. It tells you what it means with no translation needed. Fortunat means fortunate, and the Latin fortuna is still sitting inside it.
When Fortunat celebrates name day
Fortunat appears 8 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 21 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Fortunat
1 in 2371799 men in Poland is named Fortunat. 9 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #17233 among male names.
Fortunat as a middle name
Fortunat is a first name for 9 men in Poland and a middle name for another 51, a 15/85 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1053rd, between Etienne (51) and Gary (51).
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#1051 Björn51
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#1052 Etienne51
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#1053 Fortunat51
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#1054 Gary51
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#1055 Hernando51