The FERNANDO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,298	7161	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	53	47987	0	1
Change since 1880	+4245	+40826	+N/A	+15
Other Countries
Australia	1,050	1571	0.006	64
United Kingdom	1,071	4982	0.002	23

Top States for FERNANDO by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,415	2312	0.004	42
New York	444	4504	0.002	23
Texas	286	6912	0.001	14
Florida	197	9697	0.001	12
Illinois	192	7031	0.002	15
Top States for FERNANDO by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nevada	90	2744	0.005	45
California	1,415	2312	0.004	42
Hawaii	48	2322	0.004	40
Washington DC	17	3486	0.003	30
Washington	145	5253	0.002	25

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

Classification and Origin of FERNANDO

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Portugal

Language of origin: Portuguese

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FERNANDO 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 FERNANDO 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 FERNANDO in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	806	18.75
White (Caucasian)	489	11.38
Mixed Race	273	6.35
Native American/Alaskan	117	2.72
Black/African American	116	2.7
Asian/Pacific	2,497	58.1

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

Similar names to FERNANDO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FERNANDO.

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.