girls:
19k births since 1914
#1071 (81st percentile)
boys:
26 births since 1970
#4560 (1st percentile)
overall:
19k births since 1914
#1866 (76th percentile)
The name Fernanda is the #1,866 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,985 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 75.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,071 (81.3% percentile) for all time with 18,959 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #4,560 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 1970.
Fernanda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1970 for boys). Birth data for Fernanda is available in 105 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (105 years for girls and 4 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Fernanda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Fernanda reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 74.2% percentile (ranked #248) with 629 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 629 births per million (ranked 74.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Fernanda ranks #421 for girls (55.6% percentile) with 373 births per million, which is 59.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Fernanda reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #898) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fernanda".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Fernanda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.2% confident that Fernanda is pronounced as fer-NAN-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is fer-NAHN-duh, at 32.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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