Fernandez
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Fernandez has been given to 395 babies in the U.S. since 1928. 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 1990, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Fernandez, 2020
1 in 668,000
Fernandez over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Fernandez?
Fernandez had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Fernandez sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fernandez. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Fernandezs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Fernandez was born before 1980 — so the typical Fernandez is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 22.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 9.9%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 383
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (90).
Is Fernandez 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
- —
- 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 1990 (15)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.0% average annual change
Spellings of Fernandez
Fernandez is not the most common spelling — Fernando is, with 98.2% against Fernandez's 0.38%.
Fernandez around the world
Where Fernandez 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.
- France1971–1971#1,990in 1971
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Fernandez by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Fernandez
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Fernandez
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.