Hernan

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Hernan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 85th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: short form of the personal name Hernando, variant of Fernando.

rarermore common
  • CLChile1 in 255◐
  • ARArgentina1 in 349
  • COColombia1 in 647

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

≈35K ●

across 9 countries

#857 ●

of 16M given names

Sources
320 ●

1.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.1K ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Hernán in SV El Salvador, UY Uruguay.

Meaning & origin●

short form of the personal name Hernando, variant of Fernando.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Hernan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#851,957,298962K rec.—295Hernan169
CL Chile#43353,85215K rec.—33Hernan140
PE Peru#167193,959152K rec.——Hernan90
VE Venezuela#160162,74256K rec.—21KHernan79
CO Colombia#11296,14137K rec.—56Hernan161
MX Mexico#53753,51946K rec.—174Hernan160
PY Paraguay#8927,99415K rec.——Hernan43
EC Ecuador#15215,990△1.5K rec.1 in 1.1K16KHernan74
US United States—10,80793K rec.1 in 31K11KHernan320
ES Spain#6253,45419K rec.1 in 14K3.5KHernan137
CR Costa Rica#5402,6439.5K rec.1 in 1.9K2.6KHernan69
AU Australia—1,8392K rec.——Hernan66

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish2.9M92%
  • English107K3%
  • Portuguese34K1%
  • 13K1%
  • French4.7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish2,868,34192%
English106,9263%
Portuguese33,7401%
13,3001%
French4,6981%

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◐

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

  • a separate given name16K records spelled Hernan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru

    Also written Hernán, Hérnan, Hernàn

  • French given name13K records spelled Hernan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, France, Peru

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Hernán

  • Lao given name4.0K records spelled Hernan16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Chile, Peru, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Hernán, Hernàn, Hérnán, เห่อนาน, Hernãn

  • Polish given name1.3K records spelled Hernan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Spain, Peru

    Also written Hernán, Hernàn

  • Swahili given name1.2K records spelled Hernan6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Philippines, Ecuador

    Also written Hernán, Hernãn

  • Russian given name1.1K records spelled Hernan14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Russia, Spain

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Эрнан, Hernán, Ernan, Hernàn, Hernãn

  • Finnish given name791 records spelled Hernan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Hernán

52 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●

Hernan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Breton, celui-ci

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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●

010020030040019502000378 · 1977

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Hernan in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1901–2024
Yearrecords
19011
19031
19041
19061
19083
19103
19112
19121
19132
19142
19152
19162
19172
19186
19195
19207
19216
19228
19233
19243
192512
192612
192715
192813
192914
193012
193118
193225
193323
193422
193530
193629
193739
193850
193938
194035
194152
194261
194381
194469
194566
1946108
1947100
194894
194992
195084
1951122
1952126
1953138
1954152
1955168
1956183
1957180
1958195
1959186
1960206
1961221
1962246
1963255
1964275
1965267
1966277
1967239
1968239
1969270
1970255
1971266
1972261
1973255
1974279
1975272
1976301
1977378
1978308
1979336
1980314
1981319
1982352
1983315
1984331
1985329
1986304
1987280
1988273
1989233
1990220
1991206
1992240
1993238
1994212
1995248
1996161
1997147
1998180
1999160
2000176
2001233
2002215
2003196
2004135
2005143
2006139
2007128
2008126
2009112
2010115
2011121
2012123
2013107
2014100
201571
201653
201793
201898
201989
202045
202151
202259
202352
202442

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 120 years between 1901–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Hernán Cortés, b. 1485Hernán Siles Zuazo, b. 1914Hernán Darío Gómez, b. 1956Hernán Medford, b. 1968Hernán Gaviria, b. 1969Hernán Díaz, b. 1973Hernán Crespo, b. 1975Diego Valeri, b. 1986Hernán Galíndez, b. 1987Hernán Pérez, b. 1989

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 55 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Hernan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—21K#90
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—16K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202416K#142
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202011K#2,337
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.5K#1,170
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3K#594
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.9K#1,775
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.9K#1,775
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—2.6K#285
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20121.4K#223
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1K#8,015

Reference works 4

  • 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
  • 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 · 712 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hernan?
We estimate roughly 35 thousand people bear Hernan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Hernan have the most bearers?
Hernan is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled hernan.
How common is Hernan compared with other names?
In Argentina, Hernan is the 85th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Hernan a male or female name?
Hernan is a male 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 Hernan mean?
Recorded meaning: short form of the personal name Hernando, variant of Fernando.
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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, “Hernan” — the 85th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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