Fortune — #8450 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Fortune

The Social Security Administration has registered 316 babies named Fortune between 1916 and 2024, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Fortune currently holds the #8450 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Fortune is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 199 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Fortune performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 91 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Fortune shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 39 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Fortune in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Fortune in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 316 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.