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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.

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.