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Fortugno is specific to Reggio Calabria and Reggio, Fortuni has a stock in Città di Castello in the Perugia area, one in Montemonaco and Montefortino in the Piceno, and in Lazio in Rome, Latina and Grotte di Castro in Viterbo, Fortunio, very very rare, has a Roman and a Calabrese one, should derive from the Latin nomen Fortunius of which we have an example in an ancient Roman funerary tombstone: "D (is) M (anibus) s (acrum) / M (arcus) Fortunius / Quintasius / pius / v (ixit) a (nnos) LX ". additions provided by Fabio Paolucci Fortugno, surname is a typical surname of southern Calabria, especially in the area of Reggio Calabria and province. Fortugno is a local and dialectal variant of the auspicious name Fortunio, derived from the Latin name of late Fortunius, imposed on infants as a wish for a happy, lucky, joyful future. I would exclude the hypothesis of the Spanish origin from Fortuno with the tilde on the "n" for the absolute local typicality of the surname.
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