Hernan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: short form of the personal name Hernando, variant of Fernando
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛrnan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hernan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 100th most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 600(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 830
- COColombia≈1 in 853
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #742 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 353 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 600 (inferred from the name graph)
≈76,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
short form of the personal name Hernando, variant of Fernando.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hernan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #100 | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 600 | 295 | Hernan | 183 |
| CO Colombia | #121 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 853 | 56 | Hernan | 170 |
| PE Peru | #154 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 964 | — | Hernan | 99 |
| CL Chile | #33 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 830 | 33 | Hernan | 149 |
| VE Venezuela | #194 | 20,866 | 1 in 1.4K | 21K | Hernan | 79 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 768 | — | Hernan | 50 |
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); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hernan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Breton, celui-ci
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hernán Cortésb. 1485ESSpanish conquistador
- Hernán Siles Zuazob. 1914BOPresident of Bolivia variously in the 20th century
- Hernán Darío Gómezb. 1956COColombian footballer and manager
- Hernán Medfordb. 1968CRCosta Rican footballer
- Hernán Gaviriab. 1969COColombian association football player (1969–2002)
- Hernán Díazb. 1973ARArgentine American writer (1973-)
- Hernán Crespob. 1975ARArgentine footballer
- Diego Valerib. 1986ARnot in their usual nameArgentine football player
- Hernán Galíndezb. 1987ECEcuadorian footballer
- Hernán Pérezb. 1989PYParaguayan association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 21K | #90 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 237 | #461 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 56 | #70 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2014 | 50 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 35 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 4 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hernan mean, and where does it come from?
- short form of the personal name Hernando, variant of Fernando. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hernan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 76 thousand people named Hernan in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hernan.
- How do you pronounce Hernan?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛrnan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Hernan a male or female name?
- Hernan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Hernan?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 20,866 people named Hernan, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Hernan compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Hernan is the 100th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hernanThe 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, “Hernan” — the 100th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.