Hernandez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Son of Hernando’, a Spanish form of Fernando (Ferdinand)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɛrnandɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hernandez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common surname.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 28(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 38
- CRCosta Rica1 in 48
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #23 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 575 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28 (inferred from the name graph)
1,043,281 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hernández 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)
‘Son of Hernando’, a Spanish form of Fernando (Ferdinand).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hernandez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #12 | 1,043,281 | 1 in 319 | 1M | Hernandez | 575 |
| VE Venezuela | #4 | ≈500,000 est. | ≈1 in 57 | 3.9K | Hernandez | 152 |
| ES Spain | #14 | 380,919 | 1 in 131 | 381K | Hernandez | 264 |
| CO Colombia | #9 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 146 | 6.2K | Hernandez | 234 |
| HN Honduras | #1 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 38 | — | Hernandez | 109 |
| SV El Salvador | #1 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 28 | 18K | Hernandez | 128 |
| CR Costa Rica | #204 | 106,072 | 1 in 48 | 106K | Hernández | 148 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 62,510 | 1 in 54 | 63K | — | 117 |
1,043,281 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RNEC — Nombres más registrados (newborn name statistics); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Hernandez is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
patronymic from the personal name Hernando (see Fernando). This surname also became established in southern Italy, mainly in Naples and Palermo, since the period of Spanish dominance there, and as a result of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal at the end of the 15th century, many of whom moved to Italy.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Fernando
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In German, Spanischer Familienname zu Ferdinand; 291 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In Italian, Variante di Fernandez
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Fidel Sánchez Hernándezb. 1917SVPresident of El Salvador (1917-2003)
- Patrick Hernandezb. 1949FRFrench singer
- Gutib. 1976ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer and football manager
- Xavi Hernándezb. 1980ESSpanish footballer and manager (born 1980)
- Andrés Guardadob. 1986MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player
- Javier Hernándezb. 1988MXMexican association football player (b. 1988)
- Georgina Rodríguezb. 1994ARnot in their usual nameArgentine-Spanish model (born 1994)
- Rodri Hernándezb. 1996ESSpanish association football player (born 1996)
- Theo Hernándezb. 1997FRFrench footballer (born 1997)
- Sheldon Rileyb. 1999AUnot in their usual nameAustralian singer (1999-)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1M | #11 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1M | #11 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 706K | #15 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 381K | #12 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 381K | #12 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 106K | #7 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 63K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 257 | #7 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Hernandez mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Son of Hernando’, a Spanish form of Fernando (Ferdinand). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Hernandez?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛrnandɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Hernandez have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 million people named Hernandez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hernandez.
- How common is the name Hernandez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,043,281 people named Hernandez in 2010, about 1 in 319 residents.
- How common is Hernandez compared with other names?
- In the United States, Hernandez is the 12th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hernandezThe 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, “Hernandez” — the 12th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.