How Many People Are Named Fernanda?

19,696

people named Fernanda are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 17,353 people in the US has this name

Based on 20,156 babies named Fernanda in Social Security records from 1914 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,638

πŸ’Ž Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#878

See the top 100

Peak Year

2009

1,282 births

Trend

β†’

Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Pronunciation: fer-NAN-da (Spanish)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Spanish, Portuguese and Italian feminine form of FERDINAND.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.9%
Male
0.1%

Almost all of the babies given the name Fernanda (99.9%) were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Fernanda alive today is about 15 years old, and 93% are under 30. Half of them were between 8 and 20 in 2025.

Under 30 18,336
93.1%
30 to 59 1,175
6%
60 and over 185
0.9%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Fernanda first appears in the records in 1914 and was given most often in 2009, to 1,282 babies. In 2025, 549 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1914 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Fernanda has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #258, in 2009. In 2025 it ranked #551.

Girls
Rank in 2025#551
Best rank#258 (2009)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#446 in the 2010s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Fernanda alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Fernanda were born in California than in any other state: about 5,546 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Fernanda was given 2.7 times as often in Arizona, 2.6 times in Texas and 2.2 times in California.

California 5,546
Texas 5,030
Arizona 1,053
Illinois 870
Florida 705
New York 501
Georgia 453
Colorado 417
North Carolina 371
New Jersey 298
Washington 279
Virginia 256
Nevada 249
Tennessee 199
Maryland 164
New Mexico 160
Indiana 156
Oklahoma 138
Oregon 117
Kansas 96
Wisconsin 92
Utah 84
Massachusetts 79
Michigan 75
Pennsylvania 65
South Carolina 62
Ohio 52
Alabama 47
Minnesota 43
Arkansas 40
Louisiana 37
Missouri 35
Iowa 31
Connecticut 27
Nebraska 27
Idaho 17
District of Columbia 5
Kentucky 5

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