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Fernande

Girls' name

Feminine form of Ferdinand

Fernande has been given to 521 babies in the U.S. since 1910. 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 1922, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Fernande, 1950

1 in 700,000

Fernande over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fernande: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Ferdinand

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fernande means

Fernande is a feminine form of Ferdinand.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fernande is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /fɛʁ.nɑ̃d/ for Fernande.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fernande → 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 and Fernand.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Fernande is pronounced /fɛʁ.nɑ̃d/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 521 girls were recorded with the name Fernande between 1910 and 1950. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,383 in 1922.

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 Fernande?

Fernande had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1950, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1950
1 in 700,000
5 of 3,502,380 births
Among girls only
1 in 343,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1950
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
485,534 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fernande sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1950 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 485,534 children born in 1950 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fernande. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fernandes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fernande was born before 1925 — so the typical Fernande is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
50.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5
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1920s — 50.5% of all recorded uses (263).

Is Fernande 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 1922 (34)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,383
1922

Spellings of Fernande

Fernande is not the most common spelling — Fernanda is, with 94.8% against Fernande's 2.5%.

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 Fernande is used

Across 1910–2025, Fernande was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 23,593 across all states with data. It was least common in Rhode Island (1 in 100,000).

122 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 4,545
  2. 2New Hampshire1 in 16,667
  3. 3Vermont1 in 50,000
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  5. 5Rhode Island1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Fernande has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fernande around the world

Where Fernande 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
    1900–1994
    #2,404
    in 1994

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

Fernande by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,383
1922
Peak year
1922
34 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
1950
All-time count
521
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fernande

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

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Sibling names for Fernande

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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