Meaning not yet researched.
Fernando: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 819 in 2025. Its best rank was #149 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #149 in 1997; #387 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fernando in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#387 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #149.
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Fernando: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 819 boys in 2025. Peak: #149 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 2,758 (2006).
In 2025, 819 US boys were named Fernando, making it the 387th most common boys’ name of the year, down 35 places from #352 in 2024. That is 133 fewer than the 952 boys named Fernando in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #149, reached in 1997. The most boys given the name in a single year was 2,758, in 2006. For comparison, it was #272 in 2015 and #364 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fernando in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 103,729 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 25,257 babies named Fernando.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,106 US boys were named Fernando; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,245. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,086 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Fernando ranked highest in California in 2025, at #191 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ferdinand (8,909 babies since 1880) and Fernand (1,493 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hernando, Ferdinando and Ferdynand are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hernando (762), Ferdinando (303), Ferdynand (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Fernando in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 197 | #191 | #139 |
| Arizona | 42 | #200 | #182 |
| Texas | 194 | #203 | #129 |
| New Mexico | 8 | #249 | #292 |
| Nevada | 12 | #252 | #184 |
| Oregon | 13 | #315 | #281 |
| Washington | 21 | #354 | #312 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #367 | #503 |
| Florida | 48 | #406 | #332 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #433 | #336 |
| Kansas | 8 | #440 | #344 |
| Illinois | 24 | #449 | #207 |
| Maryland | 10 | #486 | #402 |
| Tennessee | 15 | #505 | #641 |
| Virginia | 15 | #505 | #353 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #521 | #457 |
| Iowa | 6 | #524 | #340 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #539 | #628 |
| New York | 29 | #549 | #513 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #559 | #482 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #573 | #575 |
| Colorado | 9 | #585 | #263 |
| Alabama | 8 | #594 | #376 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #600 | #349 |
| Georgia | 17 | #602 | #416 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #690 | #610 |
| Utah | 5 | #735 | #455 |
| Indiana | 7 | #798 | #516 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #818 | #735 |
| Ohio | 10 | #821 | #1,119 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #823 | #363 |
| Michigan | 8 | #862 | #488 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,299 | #820 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 819 | #387 |
| 2024 | — | — | 952 | #352 |
| 2023 | — | — | 970 | #344 |
| 2022 | — | — | 976 | #342 |
| 2021 | — | — | 906 | #358 |
| 2020 | — | — | 938 | #342 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,065 | #316 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,093 | #311 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,680 | 1,142 | #306 |
| 2016 | — | — | 1,245 | #289 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,348 | #272 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,404 | #264 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,429 | #254 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,588 | 1,482 | #243 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,666 | 1,706 | #209 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,604 | 1,953 | #189 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,789 | 2,126 | #179 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,427 | 2,383 | #164 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,098 | 2,687 | #157 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,060 | 2,758 | #151 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,073 | 2,440 | #170 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,581 | 2,578 | #155 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,725 | 2,554 | #157 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,179 | 2,423 | #159 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,961 | 2,601 | #154 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,164 | 2,602 | #150 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,881 | 2,175 | #169 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,431 | 2,057 | #166 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,557 | 2,315 | #149 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,361 | 1,875 | #178 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,086 | 1,872 | #176 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,819 | 1,831 | #174 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,713 | 1,799 | #179 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,583 | 1,880 | #169 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,866 | 1,898 | #169 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,126 | 1,731 | #179 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,373 | 1,582 | #187 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,397 | 1,361 | #200 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,724 | 1,202 | #208 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,596 | 1,323 | #193 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,456 | 1,292 | #193 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,380 | 1,284 | #191 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,997 | 1,280 | #190 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,647 | 1,367 | #185 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,772 | 1,241 | #199 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,325 | 1,266 | #196 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,340 | 1,131 | #210 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,563 | 1,081 | #204 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,733 | 1,136 | #201 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,808 | 886 | #230 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,671 | 914 | #223 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,114 | 841 | #240 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,710 | 809 | #245 |
| 1972 | — | — | 782 | #255 |
| 1971 | — | — | 828 | #264 |
| 1970 | — | — | 764 | #276 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,826 | 680 | #287 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,481 | 648 | #293 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,108 | 588 | #304 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,890 | 603 | #303 |
| 1965 | — | — | 549 | #324 |
| 1964 | — | — | 620 | #310 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,927 | 597 | #322 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,886 | 634 | #309 |
| 1961 | — | — | 610 | #317 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,663 | 584 | #323 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,407 | 610 | #316 |
| 1958 | — | — | 528 | #335 |
| 1957 | — | — | 530 | #332 |
| 1956 | — | — | 517 | #325 |
| 1955 | — | — | 532 | #320 |
| 1954 | — | — | 572 | #299 |
| 1953 | — | — | 530 | #312 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,837 | 424 | #336 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,672 | 406 | #338 |
| 1950 | — | — | 344 | #364 |
| 1949 | — | — | 268 | #412 |
| 1948 | — | — | 312 | #387 |
| 1947 | — | — | 264 | #420 |
| 1946 | — | — | 219 | #430 |
| 1945 | — | — | 220 | #407 |
| 1944 | — | — | 180 | #450 |
| 1943 | — | — | 164 | #481 |
| 1942 | — | — | 183 | #455 |
| 1941 | — | — | 133 | #511 |
| 1940 | — | — | 164 | #453 |
| 1939 | — | — | 131 | #497 |
| 1938 | — | — | 141 | #489 |
| 1937 | — | — | 150 | #456 |
| 1936 | — | — | 121 | #512 |
| 1935 | — | — | 128 | #508 |
| 1934 | — | — | 132 | #502 |
| 1933 | — | — | 132 | #488 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,073 | 132 | #500 |
| 1931 | — | — | 177 | #426 |
| 1930 | — | — | 173 | #449 |
| 1929 | — | — | 148 | #482 |
| 1928 | — | — | 146 | #499 |
| 1927 | — | — | 189 | #445 |
| 1926 | — | — | 136 | #519 |
| 1925 | — | — | 162 | #478 |
| 1924 | — | — | 153 | #504 |
| 1923 | — | — | 136 | #521 |
| 1922 | — | — | 119 | #589 |
| 1921 | — | — | 130 | #546 |
| 1920 | — | — | 96 | #647 |
| 1919 | — | — | 83 | #683 |
| 1918 | — | — | 84 | #680 |
| 1917 | — | — | 80 | #670 |
| 1916 | — | — | 58 | #814 |
| 1915 | — | — | 56 | #817 |
| 1914 | — | — | 54 | #706 |
| 1913 | — | — | 30 | #904 |
| 1912 | — | — | 34 | #742 |
| 1911 | — | — | 18 | #768 |
| 1910 | — | — | 23 | #605 |
| 1909 | — | — | 16 | #694 |
| 1908 | — | — | 12 | #794 |
| 1907 | — | — | 6 | #1,245 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,169 |
| 1904 | — | — | 16 | #573 |
| 1903 | — | — | 6 | #1,056 |
| 1902 | — | — | 11 | #706 |
| 1901 | — | — | 6 | #988 |
| 1900 | — | — | 12 | #758 |
| 1899 | — | — | 8 | #810 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,191 |
| 1897 | — | — | 8 | #813 |
| 1896 | — | — | 6 | #1,029 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,139 |
| 1894 | — | — | 8 | #811 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #886 |
| 1888 | — | — | 5 | #1,084 |
| 1886 | — | — | 9 | #660 |
| 1885 | — | — | 9 | #662 |
| 1884 | — | — | 10 | #632 |
| 1883 | — | — | 6 | #830 |
| 1882 | — | — | 6 | #873 |
| 1880 | — | — | 8 | #703 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).