Fernandō
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fernandō is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Contraction of Ferdinando, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz (“journey”) or *friþuz (“peace”) + *nanþaz (“daring”) (from the root of *ninþaną (“to be daring”)).
- ESSpain1 in 261(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 422
- USUnited States1 in 2.2K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 400 (measured from records)
- 1 in 261 (inferred from the name graph)
502,065 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fernando in BR Brazil, US United States, ES Spain and 2 more.
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)
Contraction of Ferdinando, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz (“journey”) or *friþuz (“peace”) + *nanþaz (“daring”) (from the root of *ninþaną (“to be daring”)).
Sources 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fernandō 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 | — | 502,065 | 1 in 422 | 556K | Fernando | 8 |
| ES Spain | #470 | 191,965 | 1 in 261 | 197K | Fernando | 127 |
| US United States | #663 | 151,654 | 1 in 2.2K | 151K | Fernando | 400 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 46,340 | 1 in 365 | 46K | Fernando | 59 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 9,202 | 1 in 554 | 9.2K | — | 4 |
| PH Philippines | #359 | — | — | — | Fernando | 120 |
502,065 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fernandō mean, and where does it come from?
- Contraction of Ferdinando, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz (“journey”) or *friþuz (“peace”) + *nanþaz (“daring”) (from the root of *ninþaną (“to be daring”)). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 6 other sources.
- Is Fernandō a male or female name?
- Fernandō 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.
- In which country does Fernandō have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 502 thousand people named Fernandō, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fernando.
- Where is Fernandō most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fernandō is densest in Spain — about 1 in 261 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fernandō?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 502,065 people named Fernandō in 2022, about 1 in 422 residents.
- How common is Fernandō compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Fernandō is the 359th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fernand%C5%8DThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Fernandō” — the 359th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.