first name
FERNANDA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 21,648 people named Fernanda, 77.8% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 18.8% as White and 1.6% as Black. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Fernanda peaked in 2009, when 1,282 babies got the name.
At least 20,156 babies have been given the name since 1914. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Fernanda by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #837. The largest share of babies named Fernanda, 51.3%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Fernanda is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Fernanda has been most common in Arizona (4.8×), Nevada (4.1×), and Texas (3.6×), and least common in Ohio (0.06×).
18,056 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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