Surname Fortunato in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Fortunato families are predominantly Croats (from Peljesac Peninsula ), rarely Italians (from Pula ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slavonski Brod and Metkovic.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Fortunato live in Croatia today, in 10 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and threee other places, mostly in Slavonski Brod (<10), Pula (<5), Viganj on the Peljesac peninsula (<5), Karlovac (<5), and in Rovinj (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Fortunato is present in 69 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Hrvoje Fortunato, Elisabetta Fortunato, Ivan Fortunato, Massimo Fortunato, Lidija Fortunato, Jasna Fortunato, Žana Fortunato, Antonija Fortunato, Antun Fortunato, Ante Fortunato, Mario Fortunato, Mladen Fortunato, Nada Fortunato, Hone Fortunato, Baldo Fortunato, Jadranka Fortunato, Marko Fortunato, Marija Fortunato, Sergio Fortunato

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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