Fernanda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Teutonic; feminine form of Ferdinand; prepared for the journey, traveller or adventurer
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɛrnanda/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fernanda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common given name.
- CLChile≈1 in 382(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 405
- PTPortugal≈1 in 429
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #487 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 356 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 382 (inferred from the name graph)
523,152 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Teutonic; feminine form of Ferdinand; prepared for the journey, traveller or adventurer.
Sources 1
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Where in the world(measured from records)
Fernanda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #34 | 523,152 | 1 in 405 | 535K | Fernanda | 247 |
| CL Chile | #61 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 382 | 571 | Fernanda | 162 |
| AR Argentina | #156 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 282 | Fernanda | 160 |
| CO Colombia | #34 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Fernanda | 182 |
| PT Portugal | #74 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 429 | listed | Fernanda | 139 |
| EC Ecuador | #40 | 17,820 | 1 in 949 | 18K | Fernanda | 93 |
523,152 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — civil registry names; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register. 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)
Fernanda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, a female given name, masculine equivalent Fernando
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, feminine form of Fernando
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Coraggiosa nel sostenere la pace
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In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Inteligente y valiente
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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)
- María Antonia of Spainb. 1729ESnot in their usual nameSpanish infanta (1729-1785)
- Infanta Maria Ana of Portugalb. 1843PTnot in their usual namePortuguese and Saxon Royal
- Infanta Antónia of Portugalb. 1845PTnot in their usual namePortuguese Royal
- Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugalb. 1855ATnot in their usual nameAustrian and Portuguese royal (1855–1944)
- Mercedes of Orléansb. 1860ESnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Spain
- Fabiola of Belgiumb. 1928ESnot in their usual namequeen consort of Belgium (1928-2014)
- Fernanda Torresb. 1965BRBrazilian actress and writer
- Fernanda Ribeirob. 1969PTAthletics competitor, long distance runner
- Fernanda Limab. 1977BRBrazilian actress
- Fernanda Castillob. 1982MXMexican TV porn actress
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 84 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 535K | #65 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022) | — | 532K | #8 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 523K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 521K | #35 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 18K | #121 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 7.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.4K | #35 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 571 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 282 | #414 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 178 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 23 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 23 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Fernanda mean, and where does it come from?
- Teutonic; feminine form of Ferdinand; prepared for the journey, traveller or adventurer. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Fernanda a male or female name?
- Fernanda is a female 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.
- In which country does Fernanda have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 523 thousand people named Fernanda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fernanda.
- How do you pronounce Fernanda?
- A machine transcription gives /fɛrnanda/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Fernanda?
- In the etymology graph, Fernande and Ferdinanda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Fernanda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 523,152 people named Fernanda in 2022, about 1 in 405 residents.
- How common is Fernanda compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Fernanda is the 34th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Fernanda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fernandaThe 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, “Fernanda” — the 34th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.