Fernàndez
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Fernàndez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 896,725 people, counted by INE. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Fernández (patronymic of Fernando (“Ferdinand”)). Fernàndez is also written Фернандес in Cyrillic, เฟอร์นันเดส in Thai and ფერნანდესი in Georgian.
- UYUruguay1 in 27(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 56
- CRCosta Rica1 in 81
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fernàndez itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #73 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 535 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27 (inferred from the name graph)
896,725 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Fernàndez in other scripts: Cyrillic, Thai, Georgian and 1 more
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fernandez in AR Argentina, ES Spain, PE Peru and 4 more and Fernández in CR Costa Rica.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Spanish Fernández (patronymic of Fernando (“Ferdinand”)).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Fernàndez is found
(measured from records)Fernàndez counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #6 | 896,725 | 1 in 56 | 897K | Fernandez | 324 |
| AR Argentina | #3 | 520,713 | 1 in 87 | 521K | Fernandez | 197 |
| PH Philippines | #10 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 361 | — | Fernandez | 181 |
| MX Mexico | #58 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 408 | 5.6K | Fernandez | 279 |
| PE Peru | #21 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 183 | 371K | Fernandez | 152 |
| UY Uruguay | #3 | 123,866 | 1 in 27 | 124K | Fernandez | 131 |
| PY Paraguay | #9 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 93 | — | Fernandez | 85 |
| CR Costa Rica | #246 | 62,807 | 1 in 81 | 63K | Fernández | 140 |
896,725 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the pe-reniec-name-freq register; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Santiago Guillén Fernàndezb. 1939ESCatalan businessman and politician
- Rafael Fernàndez Mallolb. 1970ESMallorcan politician
- Julià Fernàndez i Olivaresb. 1977ESCatalan politician and pharmacist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fernàndez mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Fernández (patronymic of Fernando (“Ferdinand”)). Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fernàndez?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 897 thousand people named Fernàndez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fernandez. After it come Argentina, Philippines, Mexico and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Fernàndez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fernàndez is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 27 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fernàndez?
- In Spain, the national register counted 896,725 people named Fernàndez, about 1 in 56 residents.
- How common is Fernàndez compared with other names?
- In Spain, Fernàndez is the 6th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fern%C3%A0ndezThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fernàndez” — ranked 4th in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.