Fernanda — #500 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Fernanda

The Social Security Administration has registered 19,575 babies named Fernanda between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Fernanda currently holds the #500 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 1,274 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Fernanda performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,128 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Fernanda shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,486 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Fernanda in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Fernanda in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 19,575 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.