boys:
395 births since 1928
#4191 (9th percentile)
overall:
395 births since 1928
#7344 (5th percentile)
The name Fernandez is the #7,344 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 395 recorded births since 1928. This represents the 5.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,191 (8.6% percentile) for all time with 395 births since 1928.
Fernandez first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1928 (first recorded for boys in 1928). Birth data for Fernandez is available in 47 out of the 93 years between 1928 and 2020. 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.
For boys, Fernandez reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #759) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fernandez".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Fernandez. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.8% confident that Fernandez is pronounced as fer-NAN-dehz, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is fer-NAHN-dehz, at 21.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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