Hernan
#2,064 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hernan has been given to 5,230 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #2,064 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 186 recorded.
Babies named Hernan, 2025
1 in 46,000
Hernan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Hernan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 46,000
- 72 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 23,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,064
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 31,916 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hernan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 31,916 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hernan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hernans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hernan was born before 1999 — so the typical Hernan is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 30.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 45.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 5,163
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (1,570).
Is Hernan 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
- +112
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −210
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +76
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.11×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 38.7%
- Peak was 1995 (186)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 11.3% average annual change
Spellings of Hernan
Hernan is not the most common spelling — Vernon is, with 35.7% against Hernan's 1.3%.
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 Hernan is used
Across 1910–2025, Hernan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 23,854 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 11,111
- 2Texas1 in 12,500
- 3Arizona1 in 14,286
- 4Florida1 in 33,333
- 5Illinois1 in 50,000
- 6New York1 in 50,000
- 7Georgia1 in 100,000
- 8North Carolina1 in 100,000
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. Hernan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Hernan around the world
Where Hernan 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.
- France1967–2020#6,469in 2020
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Hernan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Hernan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Hernan
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hernan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Hernan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.