Hernändez
surname · Latin script
Hernändez 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. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Hernández (“son of Hernando”), from Hernando, variant of Fernando (“Ferdinand”), of Germanic origin.
- 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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hernändez itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. 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)
- Record sources
- 575 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28 (inferred from the name graph)
1,043,281 people, 2010
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hernandez in US United States, VE Venezuela, SV El Salvador and 3 more and 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)From Spanish Hernández (“son of Hernando”), from Hernando, variant of Fernando (“Ferdinand”), of Germanic origin.
Cited for this meaning 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hernändez 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hernändez mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Hernández (“son of Hernando”), from Hernando, variant of Fernando (“Ferdinand”), of Germanic origin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Hernändez have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 million people named Hernändez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hernandez.
- How common is the name Hernändez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,043,281 people named Hernändez in 2010, about 1 in 319 residents.
- How common is Hernändez compared with other names?
- In the United States, Hernändez 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/hern%C3%A4ndezThe 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, “Hernändez” — the 12th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.