Fernando
The boy's name Fernando has been in the national records since 1880, with 103,729 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 387th. About 94,000 Fernandos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Fernando boys named Fernando
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 103,729
- Estimated living today
- 94,000
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 151st
- Rank in 2025
- 387th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 590 / 103,139
How old the living Fernandos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 103,729 babies given the name since 1880, about 94,000 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 24,000 of them are children and 5,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Fernandos
- Fernando Alonso (born 1981)Spanish racing driver
- Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935)Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935); creator of the heteronymic system including Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, and Bernardo Soares
- Fernando Torres (born 1984)Spanish footballer and manager
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931)President of Brazil from 1995 to 2003
- Fernando Lugo (born 1951)47.° President of Paraguay
- Fernando Llorente (born 1985)Spanish association football player
- Fernando Botero (1932–2023)Colombian painter and sculptor
- Fernando Gago (born 1986)Argentine association football player and manager
People named Fernando with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Fernando is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Fernando is most concentrated in Arizona (4.1×), California (3.5×), New Mexico (3.2×), Texas (3.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Fernando peaked:
Fernando elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain boys | Fernando | 17,467 | 42nd |
| France boys | Fernando | 4,765 | 144th |
| Italy boys | Fernando | 1,293 | — |
| England and Wales boys | Fernando | 342 | 1,241st |
| Switzerland boys | Fernando | 196 | 365th |
| Norway boys | Fernando | 153 | 410th |
| Belgium boys | Fernando | 42 | 899th |
| Poland boys | Fernando | 25 birth registrations | 359th |
| Ireland boys | Fernando | 6 | 755th |
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.
Fernando: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Fernando | 166 | 0.013% | 280th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Fernando | 25 | 0.006% | 374th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Fernando | 5 | 0.008% | 177th |
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.
By canton, Fernando is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.02% of children were given it – 51 of them.
Fernando: rank by region
In 2010, Fernando was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Fernando | 691 | 7 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Fernando by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 14 | 348th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Fernando 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 boys | Fernando | 40 | 154 |
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 Fernando lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 191,965 men called Fernando were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valladolid | Fernando | 3,468 | 13.474 | 11 |
| Cantabria | Fernando | 3,857 | 13.417 | 12 |
| Burgos | Fernando | 2,400 | 13.225 | 8 |
| Ávila | Fernando | 1,004 | 12.430 | 13 |
| Badajoz | Fernando | 4,033 | 12.289 | 17 |
| Segovia | Fernando | 964 | 12.139 | 12 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Fernando 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.