Fernande
Fernande was last recorded in 1950, when 5 babies were given it; 521 Americans have been recorded with it between 1910 and 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fernande by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Fernande mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Fernande is “a female given name, masculine equivalent Fernand”
/fɛʁ.nɑ̃d/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Fernande?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,553, in 1950; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1922, the peak
Fernande peaked in 1922, when 34 girls were given it, #1,383 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 5 | #5,553 | 2.9 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,815 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,928 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,862 | 5.2 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,615 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,557 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,376 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,563 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,203 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,918 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 11 | #2,620 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,591 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,280 | 13.1 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,904 | 16.9 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,831 | 17.8 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,228 | 13.4 |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,483 | 25.1 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,594 | 22.6 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,680 | 21.1 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,544 | 23.8 |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,652 | 21.6 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,406 | 27.4 |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,383 | 28.3 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,689 | 21.1 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,105 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,707 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,988 | 16.4 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,029 | 15.7 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,415 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,700 | 20.3 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,947 | 17.1 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,357 | 8.0 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,290 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,542 | 12.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fernande a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fernande has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fernande: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fernande, and how old are they?
An estimated 45 Americans named Fernande and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 674 people named Fernande (656 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 94 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.2 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).
Where are babies named Fernande born?
The states with the most babies named Fernande are Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Maine and Massachusetts and New Hampshire are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 155 | not ranked | 40.3× |
| Massachusetts | 59 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| New Hampshire | 31 | not ranked | 14.0× |
| Rhode Island | 5 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Vermont | 5 | not ranked | 2.9× |
Where Fernande is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Fernande is most over-represented in Maine: since 1910 it was given 40.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Fernande with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 20,677 babies since 1880, Fernande is the second most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 549 babies recorded by SSA was a Fernande (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 Fernande
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Fernande and names like it
- Compare Fernande and FernandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sFernande peaked in 1922.
- Maine’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fernande since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Fernande: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Fernande.
- Names starting with FMost given first.