Fernandez

At the 2020 census, 185,352 Americans bore the surname Fernandez — 134th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,613.

By the numbers

People: 185,352
Rank: 134th
How common: 1 in 1,613
Per 100,000: 62.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Anglicization of Spanish Fernández.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Fernandez described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 83.8%
White, not Hispanic 7.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Fernandez

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (born 1953)president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015
Alberto Fernández (born 1959)president of Argentina from 2019 to 2023
Enzo Fernández (born 2001)Argentine footballer
Jacqueline Fernandez (born 1985)Sri Lankan actress
Leonel Fernández (born 1953)former president of the Dominican Republic
Gabriel Fernández Arena (born 1983)Spanish footballer
Francisco Fernández (born 1975)Chilean association football player
Álvaro Fernández (born 2003)Spanish footballer

People named Fernandez with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Fernandez

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.