Hernan
Hernan was given to 72 boys in 2025, #2,064 among boys’ names; 5,230 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,980 Americans named Hernan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 17 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hernan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hernan?
#2,064 among boys’ names, 2025
Hernan rose from #2,140 in 2015 to #2,064 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 33.9 to 42.2 per million.
186 babies in 1995, the peak
Hernan peaked in 1995, when 186 boys were given it, #783 among boys’ names. The 72 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,064 | 42.2 |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,176 | 38.9 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,069 | 42.1 |
| 2022 | 79 | #1,957 | 45.2 |
| 2021 | 76 | #1,967 | 43.4 |
| 2020 | 80 | #1,854 | 46.3 |
| 2019 | 81 | #1,856 | 45.1 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,179 | 35.2 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,284 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 76 | #1,931 | 40.0 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 65 | #2,140 | 33.9 |
| 2014 | 79 | #1,861 | 41.1 |
| 2013 | 76 | #1,870 | 40.2 |
| 2012 | 88 | #1,716 | 46.4 |
| 2011 | 94 | #1,622 | 49.5 |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,567 | 52.6 |
| 2009 | 88 | #1,746 | 44.4 |
| 2008 | 123 | #1,382 | 60.3 |
| 2007 | 113 | #1,437 | 54.4 |
| 2006 | 124 | #1,326 | 60.3 |
| 2005 | 131 | #1,210 | 65.6 |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,296 | 57.9 |
| 2003 | 135 | #1,126 | 68.3 |
| 2002 | 147 | #1,045 | 75.7 |
| 2001 | 158 | #973 | 81.3 |
| 2000 | 153 | #974 | 77.9 |
| 1999 | 152 | #951 | 79.2 |
| 1998 | 154 | #922 | 80.6 |
| 1997 | 164 | #859 | 87.0 |
| 1996 | 177 | #812 | 93.4 |
| 1995 | 186 | #783 | 97.7 |
| 1994 | 155 | #859 | 80.2 |
| 1993 | 146 | #880 | 74.4 |
| 1992 | 169 | #803 | 84.6 |
| 1991 | 146 | #867 | 72.3 |
| 1990 | 121 | #937 | 58.9 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,227 | 38.0 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,271 | 34.0 |
| 1987 | 55 | #1,346 | 29.5 |
| 1986 | 53 | #1,348 | 28.8 |
| 1985 | 39 | #1,626 | 21.1 |
| 1984 | 44 | #1,450 | 24.4 |
| 1983 | 38 | #1,573 | 21.2 |
| 1982 | 33 | #1,746 | 18.2 |
| 1981 | 50 | #1,315 | 27.9 |
| 1980 | 32 | #1,781 | 17.9 |
| 1979 | 40 | #1,500 | 23.2 |
| 1978 | 35 | #1,606 | 21.3 |
| 1977 | 42 | #1,415 | 25.6 |
| 1976 | 34 | #1,581 | 21.7 |
| 1975 | 28 | #1,762 | 17.9 |
| 1974 | 34 | #1,505 | 21.6 |
| 1973 | 34 | #1,480 | 21.8 |
| 1972 | 28 | #1,662 | 17.3 |
| 1971 | 34 | #1,476 | 19.2 |
| 1970 | 33 | #1,476 | 17.8 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,078 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,917 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 17 | #1,938 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,696 | 5.6 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,026 | 8.6 |
| 1964 | 17 | #2,009 | 8.5 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,245 | 6.9 |
| 1962 | 22 | #1,727 | 10.6 |
| 1961 | 22 | #1,759 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,258 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,916 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,307 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,726 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,699 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,858 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,277 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,249 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,761 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,559 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,134 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,894 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,758 | 4.9 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,376 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,075 | 4.9 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,310 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,324 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,127 | 7.1 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,636 | 4.4 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,628 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hernan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hernan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hernan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hernan, and how old are they?
4,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 5,230 Americans ever recorded as Hernan. The median Hernan alive today is 27 years old; half are between 17 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 10,838 people named Hernan (31 women and girls, 10,807 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,621 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 137 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 403 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 938 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Hernan born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,145 | 2.3× |
| California | 13 | #1,385 | 2.2× |
Where Hernan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hernan is most over-represented in Texas: since 1921 it was given 2.3 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 boys’ 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 Hernan 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,044 babies since 1880, Hernan is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 88 babies (82%), again the most given.
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 Hernan
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 Hernan and names like it
- Compare Hernan and HeronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sHernan peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hernan since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Hernan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hernan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.