Hernando
Hernando reached its high-water mark in 1967 at number 1,758, and has been recorded 762 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 660 Hernandos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hernando
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 762
- Estimated living today
- 660
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1967
- Best rank
- 1,758th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1916
How old the living Hernandos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 762 babies given the name since 1916, about 660 are alive — 86 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 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 Hernandos
- Hernando de Soto (1500–1542)Spanish explorer and conquistador
- Hernando de Soto (born 1941)Peruvian economist
- Hernando Siles Reyes (1882–1942)President of Bolivia
- Hernando Pizarro (1502–1578)Spanish conquistador
- Hernando Tovar (1938–2026)Colombian footballer
- Hernando de Alarcón (1500–1542)Spanish explorer
- Hernando del Pulgar (1436–1492)Spanish historian
- Hernando de Luque (1450–1533)Spanish explorer and priest
People named Hernando with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hernando is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hernando is most concentrated in New York (7.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1967
The most popular boys’ names the year Hernando peaked:
Where Hernando lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 723 men called Hernando 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Araba/Álava | Hernando | 14 | 0.083 | 808 |
| Cantabria | Hernando | 15 | 0.052 | 945 |
| Palmas, Las | Hernando | 28 | 0.048 | 1,630 |
| León | Hernando | 10 | 0.046 | 1,060 |
| Albacete | Hernando | 9 | 0.046 | 1,061 |
| Madrid | Hernando | 151 | 0.044 | 1,214 |
Listed in 34 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 18 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
Hernando against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.