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The FERNANDEZ surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 139,302 178 0.052 516
United States (1880 census) 990 5500 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +138312 +5322 +0.05 +496
Other Countries
Australia 1,820 893 0.011 111
United Kingdom 2,188 2740 0.005 48
Top States for FERNANDEZ by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 33,760 33 0.211 2,112
California 29,518 82 0.087 871
Texas 15,011 157 0.072 720
New York 12,464 82 0.066 657
New Jersey 7,460 57 0.089 887
Top States for FERNANDEZ by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 33,760 33 0.211 2,112
Hawaii 1,369 23 0.113 1,130
New Jersey 7,460 57 0.089 887
New Mexico 1,587 107 0.087 872
California 29,518 82 0.087 871

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FERNANDEZ live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FERNANDEZ represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FERNANDEZ in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FERNANDEZ by picking someone at random in Florida than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FERNANDEZ

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FERNANDEZ surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FERNANDEZ surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FERNANDEZ in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 306 0.22
White (Hispanic) 112,417 80.7
White (Caucasian) 15,811 11.35
Asian/Pacific 7,202 5.17
Black/African American 1,783 1.28
Mixed Race 1,797 1.29

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FERNANDEZ surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FERNANDEZ in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of FERNANDEZ.

Similar names to FERNANDEZ

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FERNANDEZ.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FERNANDEZ

The following words are slight variants of FERNANDEZ that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.