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Fernand

Boys' name

Form of Ferdinand

Fernand has been given to 1,493 babies in the U.S. since 1882. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Fernand, 2017

1 in 511,000

Fernand over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fernand: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ferdinand

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fernand means

Fernand is a form of Ferdinand.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fernand is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /feʁ.nɑ̃/ for Fernand.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fernand → Ferdinand. The family’s meaning is “journey + daring”, recorded in English with the source elements fardiz and nanþaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ferdinand.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Fernand is pronounced /fɛʁ.nɑ̃/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,493 boys were recorded with the name Fernand between 1882 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 73 in 1923; its best national rank was #772 in 1923.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Fernand?

Fernand had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 511,000
7 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 264,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
354,210 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fernand sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fernand. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fernands were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fernand was born before 1929 — so the typical Fernand is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
37.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.80%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
272
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (562).

Is Fernand rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (73)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#772
1923

Spellings of Fernand

Fernand is not the most common spelling — Bernard is, with 61.9% against Fernand's 0.46%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Fernand is used

Across 1910–2025, Fernand was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 2,000 boys, against 1 in 15,962 across all states with data. It was least common in Connecticut (1 in —).

050 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 2,000
  2. 2New Hampshire1 in 7,692
  3. 3Rhode Island1 in 12,500
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  5. 5Vermont1 in 33,333
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7Connecticut1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fernand has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fernand around the world

Where Fernand ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1900–2025
    #1,803
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #1,824
    in 1993

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Fernand by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#772
1923
Peak year
1923
73 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
1,493
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fernand

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Fernand

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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