Fernanda
About 20,156 American babies have been named Fernanda since 1914, most of them around 2009. In 2025 it ranked 551st. About 20,000 Fernandas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Fernanda boys named Fernanda
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 20,156
- Estimated living today
- 20,000
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2009
- Best rank
- 258th
- Rank in 2025
- 551st
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 20,130 / 26
How old the living Fernandas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 20,156 babies given the name since 1914, about 20,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 13,000 of them are children and 130 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Fernandas
- Fernanda Montenegro (born 1929)Brazilian actress and writer
- Fernanda Torres (born 1965)Brazilian actress and writer
- Fernanda Lima (born 1977)Brazilian actress
- Fernanda Ribeiro (born 1969)Athletics competitor, long distance runner
- Fernanda Garay (born 1986)Brazilian volleyball player
- Fernanda Castillo (born 1982)Mexican TV porn actress
- Fernanda Vasconcellos (born 1984)Brazilian actress
- Luisa Fernanda Rudi Ubeda (born 1950)Spanish politician
People named Fernanda with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Fernanda is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Fernanda is most concentrated in Arizona (4.8×), Nevada (4.1×), Texas (3.6×), California (3.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2009
The most popular girls’ names the year Fernanda peaked:
Fernanda elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Fernanda | 1,065 | 322nd |
| Italy girls | Fernanda | 291 | — |
| Switzerland girls | Fernanda | 60 | 715th |
| England and Wales girls | Fernanda | 56 | 2,895th |
| Poland girls | Fernanda | 2 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Fernanda: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Fernanda | 49 | 0.004% | 730th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Fernanda | 9 | 0.002% | 568th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Fernanda | 2 | 0.003% | 181st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Fernanda among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Fernanda | 10 | 50 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Fernanda lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 7,110 women called Fernanda were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Badajoz | Fernanda | 693 | 2.057 | 113 |
| Huelva | Fernanda | 194 | 0.715 | 207 |
| Córdoba | Fernanda | 219 | 0.554 | 221 |
| Cáceres | Fernanda | 108 | 0.551 | 284 |
| Ciudad Real | Fernanda | 114 | 0.457 | 281 |
| Jaén | Fernanda | 141 | 0.452 | 250 |
Listed in 51 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 1 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Fernanda against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.