Fernandes
surname · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fernandes is a surname, most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is the 29th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Fernando.
- STSão Tomé & Príncipe1 in 11◐
- GWGuinea-Bissau1 in 37
- PTPortugal1 in 86
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈100K ●
- #268 ●
- Sources
- 343 ●
- 1 in 771 ◐
across 16 countries
of 21M surnames
572K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
Fernando
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #29 | 4,593,833 | 432K rec. | — | 5.6K | Fernandes | 248 |
| PT Portugal | #9 | 98,657 | 33K rec. | — | listed | Fernandes | 213 |
| IN India | — | 59,333△ | 24K rec. | 1 in 22K | 81K | Fernandes | 183 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | #13 | 44,906 | 42 rec. | — | — | Fernandes | 24 |
| US United States | — | 18,018 | 52K rec. | 1 in 18K | 19K | Fernandes | 343 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 10,010 | 6.4K rec. | — | listed | Fernandes | 164 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 7,461△ | 1.7K rec. | 1 in 1.1K | 7.5K | Fernandes | 96 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,647 | 5.3K rec. | 1 in 8.9K | 5.6K | Fernandes | 115 |
| ST São Tomé & Príncipe | #1 | 4,188 | 17 rec. | — | — | Fernandes | 22 |
| FR France | — | 4,093△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 17K | 4.1K | — | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,846 | 3.4K rec. | — | — | Fernandes | 144 |
| AO Angola | #9 | 3,570 | 3.3K rec. | — | 14 | Fernandes | 57 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese4.9M82%
- Hindi398K7%
- French177K3%
- Assamese162K3%
- English131K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 4,862,585 | 82% |
| Hindi | 398,066 | 7% |
| French | 176,889 | 3% |
| Assamese | 162,000 | 3% |
| English | 131,136 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Fernandes is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Portugiesischer Familienname zu Ferdinand; 465 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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 7 |
| 1940 | 80 |
| 1950 | 345 |
| 1960 | 913 |
| 1970 | 1,745 |
| 1980 | 2,605 |
| 1990 | 3,489 |
| 2000 | 3,962 |
| 2010 | 4,228 |
| 2020 | 4,336 |
| 2022 | 4,372 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 11 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- George Fernandesb. 1930INIndian trade unionist and politician (1930–2019)
- Fernando Santosb. 1954PTnot in their usual namePortuguese football manager
- Tony Fernandesb. 1964MYMalaysian entrepreneur
- Suella Bravermanb. 1980GBnot in their usual nameBritish politician (born 1980)
- Daniel Fernandesb. 1983CAPortuguese footballer
- Gelson Fernandesb. 1986CHSwiss footballer
- Manuel Fernandesb. 1986PTPortuguese footballer
- Mário Fernandesb. 1990BRBrazilian-Russian professional footballer
- Bruno Fernandesb. 1994PTPortuguese association football player (born 1994)
- Edimilson Fernandesb. 1996CHSwiss association football player
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 62 sources across 37 countries.
Reference works 6
- 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)
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 180 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Fernandes?
- We estimate roughly 100 thousand people bear Fernandes (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Fernandes have the most bearers?
- Fernandes is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled fernandes.
- How common is Fernandes compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Fernandes is the 29th most common surname of 444,951 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Fernandes mean?
- Recorded meaning: Fernando
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fernandes” — the 29th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.