Fortune

Meaning

Fortune comes through Latin and French into English with the sense of luck, fate, or prosperity. In the name-books, it appears as a name presaging good fortune and is linked to a spiritual sense of the soul’s prosperity before being read more literally as worldly success. It is also associated with the broader idea of "fortune" found in related forms like Fortunatus and Fortunio.

Origin

Fun fact

19th-century writers note that names like Fortune were sometimes chosen first in a religious sense, then later understood as a wish for earthly success.