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How popular is “Fernandez” in the USA?

Number of people named “Fernandez” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Fernandez” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Fernandez” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Fernandez” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Fernandez” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Fernandez” by birth year

This chart shows how “Fernandez” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1928 7 0.000003096 7 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 -100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 -100%
1960 11 0.000002648 11 -100%
1961 11 0.000002656 11 -100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 -100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 -100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 -100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 -100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 -100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 12 0.000003778 12 -100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 -100%
1979 10 0.000003006 10 -100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 -100%
1981 12 0.000003469 12 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 -100%
1985 11 0.000003082 11 -100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 -100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
1990 15 0.000003795 15 -100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 -100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 -100%
1993 13 0.000003448 13 -100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 -100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 -100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 -100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 -100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 -100%

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