Fernanda

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Fernanda is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Colombia it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Teutonic; feminine form of Ferdinand; prepared for the journey, traveller or adventurer.

rarermore common
  • COColombia1 in 231◐
  • CLChile1 in 345
  • BRBrazil1 in 405

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈571K ●

across 9 countries

#212 ●

of 16M given names

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
325 ●

1.4M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 405 ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

FernandaLatin · Portuguese●8.3M records
페르난다Hangul · Korean●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Teutonic; feminine form of Ferdinand; prepared for the journey, traveller or adventurer.

Sources 1

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Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Fernanda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#1591,077,299599K rec.—282Fernanda151
BR Brazil#44523,152296K rec.1 in 405535KFernanda241
MX Mexico#155343,378200K rec.—60Fernanda229
CO Colombia#35269,37846K rec.——Fernanda174
CL Chile#69261,34419K rec.—571Fernanda157
PE Peru#319103,83254K rec.——Fernanda81
VE Venezuela#44755,86150K rec.——Fernanda70
US United States—21,48743K rec.1 in 15K21KFernanda325
EC Ecuador#13017,820△2.9K rec.1 in 94918KFernanda87
PT Portugal#8316,9407.5K rec.—listedFernanda137
ES Spain#2687,11028K rec.1 in 7K7.2KFernanda146
IT Italy—3,6563.5K rec.—3Fernanda106

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Languages●

  • Portuguese8.3M73%
  • Spanish2.3M20%
  • English590K5%
  • French20K1%
  • ptbr18K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese8,282,29873%
Spanish2,337,71720%
English590,2745%
French19,5471%
ptbr18,0031%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Fernanda is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name630K records spelled Fernanda25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Ecuador, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Fërnändä, Fèrnàndà, Férňandä, Fernändä, Fërnanda

  • French given name32K records spelled Fernanda4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Fërñãñdä, Fernandâ

  • a separate given name22K records spelled Fernanda2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Fernánda

  • Lao given name18K records spelled Fernanda22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Chile, Peru, United States

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Fërnändä, F'Ernanda, Férnándá, Férnanda, Fernánda

  • Indonesian given name13K records spelled Fernanda7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, United States, Ecuador

    Also written 'Fernanda, Fernanda', Fernándá, Fernändä, Fërnandå

  • Portuguese given name4.1K records spelled Fernanda153 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic

    Also written Fernando, Fernándo, Фернандо, Fërnändö, Фернанда

  • Danish given name3.6K records spelled Fernanda11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Peru

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Fërnändä, Fęrnåndå, Fëŗńäńdä, Fërnąndā

70 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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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  • In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Inteligente y valiente

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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.

Over time●

0200400600800192019401960198020002020692 · 2009

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Fernanda in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1904–2024
Yearrecords
19041
19051
19071
19081
19121
19142
19151
19162
19173
19202
19213
19222
19235
19241
19251
19263
19272
19284
19293
19303
19321
19332
19341
19352
19375
19384
19393
19413
19424
19434
19444
19452
19462
19471
19484
19491
19502
19515
19523
19533
19541
19557
19563
19572
19585
19593
19606
19618
196211
19636
19649
19657
19667
19679
196812
196912
197017
197113
197213
197325
197430
197528
197641
197760
197869
197982
198094
1981263
1982222
1983239
1984230
1985248
1986246
1987257
1988283
1989303
1990333
1991326
1992359
1993345
1994357
1995444
1996401
1997337
1998404
1999383
2000436
2001417
2002471
2003421
2004422
2005439
2006483
2007493
2008538
2009692
2010591
2011581
2012615
2013498
2014484
2015452
2016408
2017460
2018475
2019412
2020302
2021304
2022298
2023302
2024178

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 111 years between 1904–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000María Antonia of Spain, b. 1729Infanta Maria Ana of Portugal, b. 1843Infanta Antónia of Portugal, b. 1845Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, b. 1855Mercedes of Orléans, b. 1860Fabiola of Belgium, b. 1928Fernanda Torres, b. 1965Fernanda Ribeiro, b. 1969Fernanda Lima, b. 1977Fernanda Castillo, b. 1982

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 82 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Fernanda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—535K#65
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022)—532K#8
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022523K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—521K#35
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202021K#1,525
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202418K#121
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20207.4K—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—7.2K#351
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7.1K#705
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.4K#35
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2017800#2,859
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—730#2,120

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 2026-09-12 data build · 869 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fernanda?
We estimate roughly 571 thousand people bear Fernanda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Fernanda have the most bearers?
Fernanda is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled fernanda.
How common is Fernanda compared with other names?
In Argentina, Fernanda is the 159th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Fernanda mean?
Recorded meaning: Teutonic; feminine form of Ferdinand; prepared for the journey, traveller or adventurer.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 159th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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