Hernandez

At the 2020 census, 1,013,895 Americans bore the surname Hernandez — 11th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 295.

By the numbers

People: 1,013,895
Rank: 11th
How common: 1 in 295
Per 100,000: 339.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Hernández (“son of Hernando”), from Hernando, variant of Fernando (“Ferdinand”), of Germanic origin.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 94.1%
White, not Hispanic 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Hernandez

Xavi Hernández (born 1980)Spanish footballer and manager
Javier Hernández (born 1988)Mexican association football player
Lucas Hernandez (born 1996)French footballer
Théo Hernandez (born 1997)French footballer
Abel Hernández (born 1990)Uruguayan association football player
Miguel Hernández (1910–1942)Spanish poet
José Hernández (1834–1886)Argentine writer
Pablo Hernández Domínguez (born 1985)Spanish footballer

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

Surnames like Hernandez

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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.