Given name & surname
Fernandez
Fernandez is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Tagalog, and Old Galician-Portuguese.
Original SpanishFernández
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fernandez through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 395
- 395 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 597 as a first name in 2020; 185,352 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fernandez’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Fernandez has a conventional equivalent in the German form Ferdinand. In English usage, Fernandez as a surname has a related form in FERNANDIZ. In English usage, Fernandez as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Fernández.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Fernandez has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.
Spanishwhere Fernandez comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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