Fernado
Fernado was last recorded in 2006, when 5 babies were given it; 145 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fernado by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fernado?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,649, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1977, the peak
Fernado peaked in 1977, when 9 boys were given it, #3,938 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #12,649 | 2.4 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,056 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,270 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,094 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,571 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,460 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,303 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,680 | 3.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,028 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,142 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 8 | #4,636 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,206 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,108 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,635 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,554 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,117 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,938 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,574 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,478 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,473 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,098 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,468 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Fernado a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fernado has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fernado: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fernado, and how old are they?
An estimated 135 Americans named Fernado and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 36 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,392 people named Fernado (9 women and girls, 1,383 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 138 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 103,874 babies since 1880, Fernado is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 819 babies recorded by SSA was a Fernado (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fernado
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Dustan | 1,695 | |
| Chadd | 2,456 | |
| Micahel | 1,412 | |
| Christoher | 1,094 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Fernado and names like it
- Compare Fernado and FernandoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sFernado peaked in 1977.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Fernado.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Fernado alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with FMost given first.